Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s; Chimes of Freedom, revised and expanded

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Seven Stories Press, 04/01/2011 - 376 páginas
Bob Dylan’s abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. In Wicked Messenger, acclaimed cultural-political commentator Mike Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of his critique to address the changing political and cultural climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic.
Wicked Messenger is also a riveting political history of the United States in the 1960s. Tracing the development of the decade’s political and cultural dissent movements, Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were anticipated in the poetic aesthetic—anarchic, unaccountable, contradictory, punk— of Dylan's mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous.
Dylan’s anguished, self-obsessed, prickly artistic evolution, Marqusee asserts, was a deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing situation. "He can no longer tell the story straight," Marqusee concludes, "because any story told straight is a false one."
 

Índice

Not Much Is Really Sacred
93
Little Boy Lost
139
The Hour Is Getting Late
215
Corruptible Seed
299
Notes
337
Index
351
Also by Mike Marqusee
366
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Página 17 - A Revolutionary and not a Reform Magazine; a Magazine with a Sense of Humor and no Respect for the Respectable: Frank; Arrogant; Impertinent: Searching for the True Causes; a Magazine Directed against Rigidity and Dogma wherever it is found, printing what is too Naked or True for a Money-Making Press; a Magazine whose final Policy is to do as it Pleases and Conciliate Nobody, not even its Readers...
Página 12 - Let us not forget that we are involved In a serious social revolution. By and large, American politics Is dominated by politicians who build their careers on Immoral compromises and ally themselves with open forms of political, economic and social exploitation.
Página 28 - The boundaries of our country, sir?" he replied. "Why sir, on the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis, on the east we are bounded by the rising sun, on the south we are bounded by the procession of the Equinoxes, and on the west by the Day of Judgment.

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Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited
Mark Polizzotti
Pré-visualização indisponível - 2006

Acerca do autor (2011)

MIKE MARQUSEE is the author of a number of groundbreaking books on politics and popular culture, including Anyone But England, War Minus the Shooting, and Redemption Song. Born and raised in the United States, he has lived in London since the 1970s.

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