Bob Dylan Summary

Bob Dylan Born May 24, 1941Duluth, Minnesota Singer, songwriter Bob Dylan. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission. One of the most influential songwriters of the twentieth century, Bob ... Read more

Throughout a career that has seen the better part of three decades, Bob Dylan (born 1941) has been pop music's master poet and an ever-changing performer.In the early 1960s Bob Dylan was heralded as t... Read more

In the following essay, Monaghan asserts that the songs of Bob Dylan, while remaining at the center of popular culture, also belong within the tradition of twentieth-century literature. Monaghan analy... Read more

In the following essay, Wells examines Dylan's song lyrics from a sociological perspective, viewing the recurring imagery of the grotesque in many of Dylan's songs as expressive of the i... Read more

In the following excerpted chapter, Scobie discusses the ways in which the meaning of Bob Dylan's songs can change, depending on the style and context in which they are presented. The Text of B... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Shelton A bright new face in folk music is appearing at Gerde's Folk City. Although only 20 years old, Bob Dylan is one of the most distinctive stylists to play in a Ma... Read more

Critical Essay by Jack Newfield Dylan, the Brecht of the juke box, has already won this generation of rebels, just as Kerouac and Camus have won earlier generations. Dylan's words, values, imag... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Rogers Once in a while, you can cross a street, walking down the backward abysm of time, and hear the sounds of early Byrds, Meet the Beatles, Bringing It All Back Home. Toda... Read more

Critical Essay by Gene Bluestein Dylan became a major innovator by immersing himself in Whitman's "swimmy waters." That is, he initiated the movement toward an Emersonian esthetic... Read more

Critical Essay by Peter Knobler Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan … contains all of the works, except Tarantula, which individually have comprised the whole of the public Dylan, and through it... Read more

Critical Essay by Naomi Lindstrom Certainly it is not possible that a mutation in the human brain caused people to be able to take in poetry just as fast as it could be sung. Yet by the sixties it was... Read more

Critical Essay by Timothy Leary The post-Hiroshima generation was the first completely electroid generation. At exactly the time when this enormous genetic wave opened to receive a post-Einsteinian re... Read more

Critical Essay by Tony Palmer Without question, the most important figure in the protest renaissance of the 1960s was Bob Dylan. Like his idol Woody Guthrie, Dylan believed he was "trying to be... Read more

Critical Essay by Jon Pareles When Bob Dylan writes from his wounded heart, he can be eloquent. When he writes from the head, he can be clairvoyant. And when Dylan the man teams with Dylan the yarn-sp... Read more

Critical Essay by Israel G. Young Bob Dylan has become a pawn in his own game. He has ceased his Quest for a Universal Sound and had settled for a liaison with the music trade's Top Forty Hit P... Read more

Critical Essay by Ralph J. Gleason With hit recordings blaring forth from every radio, with his songs being sung by individual vocalists and played by rock 'n' roll groups everywhere, Dy... Read more

Role of Music during the 60s and 70s Throughout history music has been a method of escape from reality. It has been one of the most popular ones, because it is readily available to almost everyone... Read more