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When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn't even deign to attend the medal ceremony?
In Why Bob Dylan Matters, Harvard professor Richard F. Thomas answers this question with magisterial erudition. A world expert on classical poetry, Thomas was initially ridiculed by his colleagues for teaching a course on Bob Dylan alongside his traditional seminars on Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. Dylan's Nobel Prize brought him vindication, and he immediately found himself thrust into the spotlight as a leading academic voice in all matters Dylanological. Today, through his wildly popular Dylan seminar - affectionately dubbed "Dylan 101" - Thomas is introducing a new generation of fans and scholars to the revered bard's work.
This witty, personal volume is a distillation of Thomas' famous course and makes a compelling case for moving Dylan out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and into the pantheon of classical poets. Asking us to reflect on the question "what makes a classic?", Thomas offers an eloquent argument for Dylan's modern relevance while interpreting and decoding Dylan's lyrics for listeners. The most original and compelling volume on Dylan in decades, Why Bob Dylan Matters will illuminate Dylan's work for the Dylan neophyte and the seasoned fanatic alike. You'll never think about Bob Dylan in the same way again.
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The year that changed everything for the Beatles was 1966 - the year of their last concert and of Revolver, their first album created to be listened to rather than performed. This was the year the Beatles risked their popularity by retiring from live performances, recording songs that explored alternative states of consciousness, experimenting with avant-garde ideas, and speaking their minds on issues of politics, war, and religion. Music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner investigates the enormous changes that took place in the Beatles' lives and work during 1966.
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- De Tad Davis en 07-28-18
De: Steve Turner
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Alan Lomax: A Biography
- De: John Szwed
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
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The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song. Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives.
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They Done Good
- De DonnaMarie113 en 06-26-22
De: John Szwed
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Catch a Wave
- The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
- De: Peter Ames Carlin
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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In Catch a Wave, Peter Ames Carlin pulls back the curtain on Brian Wilson, one of popular music's most revered luminaries, as well as its biggest mystery. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and never-before heard studio recordings, Carlin follows the Beach Boys from their earliest days through Brian's deepening emotional problems to his triumphant re-emergence with the release of Smile, the legendarily unreleased album he had originally shelved.
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Not great
- De J. Barker en 08-08-16
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Your Song Changed My Life
- From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
- De: Bob Boilen
- Narrado por: Bob Boilen
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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From the beloved host and creator of NPR's All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy, among others - published in association with NPR Music.
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Cool if you know all interviewed artists
- De Farfield en 12-05-16
De: Bob Boilen
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The Never-Ending Present
- The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip
- De: Michael Barclay
- Narrado por: George Stroumboulopoulos
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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From our talent-rich neighbor to the north comes this biography of one of the most successful Canadian rock bands, The Tragically Hip, which announced a year-long tour after sharing the news of lead singer Gord Downie’s inoperable cancer. Now available to US listeners, The Never-Ending Present details what led up to the memorable night when music fans all over the world watched Downie’s heroic final performance.
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Hometown Heroes
- De Tommy Garou en 12-13-18
De: Michael Barclay
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Something Wonderful
- Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
- De: Todd S. Purdum
- Narrado por: Todd S. Purdum
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, whose songs have never lost their popularity or emotional power. Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play.
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Fabulous book about Rodgers & Hammerstein!!!
- De BigWally en 06-27-18
De: Todd S. Purdum
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Dreaming the Beatles
- A Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
- De: Rob Sheffield
- Narrado por: Rob Sheffield
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn't another exposé about how they broke up. It isn't a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles' music on their parents' stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? Find out.
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Wonderful ramble
- De Tad Davis en 05-18-17
De: Rob Sheffield
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Where the Heart Beats
- John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
- De: Kay Larson
- Narrado por: Jason Wineinger
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself - and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. "Remarkably researched, exquisitely written", Where the Heart Beats weaves together "a great many threads of cultural history" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s.
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Mind Expansion
- De Robert Keith en 04-04-15
De: Kay Larson
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Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
- Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock
- De: Gregory Alan Thornbury
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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In 1969, in Capitol Records' Hollywood studio, a blonde-haired troubadour named Larry Norman laid track for an album that would launch a new genre of music and one of the strangest, most interesting careers in modern rock. Having spent the bulk of the 1960s playing on bills with acts like The Who, Janis Joplin, and The Doors, Norman decided that he wanted to sing about the most countercultural subject of all: Jesus.
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Hagiography not Biography
- De Keith Howard en 10-29-18
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Go Ahead in the Rain
- Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- De: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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The seminal rap group A Tribe Called Quest brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces. This narrative follows Tribe from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Throughout the narrative, poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself.
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Beautiful
- De Joshua Lindell en 03-06-19
De: Hanif Abdurraqib
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So We Read On
- How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
- De: Maureen Corrigan
- Narrado por: Maureen Corrigan
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald's masterpiece may be one of the most popular novels in America, many of us first read it when we were too young to fully comprehend its power.
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Reading Gatsby as an adult reveals its greatness!
- De Mark en 10-06-14
De: Maureen Corrigan
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John Lennon
- The Life
- De: Philip Norman
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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Philip Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, here is the definitive portrait of John Lennon. This biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at Lennon's much-chronicled life, including the songs that have turned him, posthumously, into almost a secular saint.
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Really Bad Abridgement Job (slash job)
- De Let's Be Reasonable en 12-04-08
De: Philip Norman
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Ted Hughes
- The Unauthorized Life
- De: Jonathan Bate
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 25 h y 33 m
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Ted Hughes, poet laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter writer since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron.
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Phenomenal thanks to narrator!
- De equinox14 en 06-26-16
De: Jonathan Bate
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Thelonious Monk
- The Life and Times of an American Original
- De: Robin DG Kelley
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 25 h y 30 m
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Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the 20th century. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of "bebop" and establishing Monk as one of America's greatest composers.
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The definitive bio of Monk
- De ricardo en 12-27-17
De: Robin DG Kelley
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All the Knowledge in the World
- The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
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All the Knowledge in the World is a history and celebration of those who created the most ground-breaking and remarkable publishing phenomenon of any age. Simon Garfield, who “has a genius for being sparked to life by esoteric enthusiasm and charming readers with his delight” (The Times), guides us on an utterly delightful journey, from Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, from modest single-volumes to the 11,000-volume Chinese manuscript that was too big to print.
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Excellent, as usual
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In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper—a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland’s most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years.
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Beautiful!
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy
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While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime military intelligence expert, began to discover tantalizing clues that suggested Ernest Hemingway's involvement in the Second World War was much more complex and dangerous than has been previously understood. Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy brings to light for the first time this riveting secret side of Hemingway's life - when he worked closely with both the American OSS and the Soviet NKVD to defeat Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
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So entertaining you'd think it was fiction
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Excellent book!
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Good and in depth view
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
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In the second half of the 20th century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicenter. The behemoth music industry, too, found itself in free fall, under siege from technology. Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war.
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Deeply disappointing.
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Excellent, as usual
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In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper—a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland’s most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years.
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Beautiful!
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So important
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Letterman
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In a career spanning more than 30 years, David Letterman redefined the modern talk show with an ironic comic style that transcended traditional television. While he remains one of the most famous stars in America, he is a remote, even reclusive figure whose career is widely misunderstood. In Letterman, Jason Zinoman, the first comedy critic in the history of the New York Times, mixes groundbreaking reporting with unprecedented access and probing critical analysis to explain the unique entertainer's titanic legacy.
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Great cover photo. Book a total waste of my time.
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The New Guys
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The never-before-told story of NASA’s 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space. With the exclusive participation of the astronauts who were there, this is the thrilling, behind-the-scenes saga of a new generation that transformed space exploration.
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As Far As It went
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Soul Therapy
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A nourishing treat!
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In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery while one inexplicably survived. Then, a teenage girl vanished from the annual state fair. Neither crime was ever solved. Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved cases quietly echo through survivors’ lives. A private investigator in Vegas, Wyatt’s latest inquiry takes him back to a past he’s tried to escape - and drags him deeper into the harrowing mystery of the movie house robbery that left six of his friends dead.
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Heartbreaking and extremely entertaining
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Burn It Down
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In Burn It Down, veteran reporter Maureen Ryan does just that. She draws on decades of experience to connect the dots and illuminate the deeper forces sustaining Hollywood’s corrosive culture. Fresh reporting sheds light on problematic situations at companies like Lucasfilm and shows like Lost, Saturday Night Live, The Goldbergs, Sleepy Hollow, Curb Your Enthusiasm and more.
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Good, Necessary, + Worthwhile
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The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid
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It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of pickpockets pulls off an amazing robbery. As the young bandits appear to melt into the crowd, Charlie realizes with a start that he himself was one of their marks. Yet Charlie is less alarmed than intrigued. This is the most thrilling thing that's happened to him since he came to France with his father, an American diplomat.
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Amazing Narration! Incredibly well written story!
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Arriving Today
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We are at a tipping point in retail history. While consumers are profiting from the convenience of instant gratification, rapidly advancing technologies are transforming the way goods are transported and displacing workers in ways never before seen. In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep.
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Great look at process of product arriving to our home.
- De Jacquie en 10-06-21
De: Christopher Mims
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Valiant Women
- The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Lena S. Andrews
- Narrado por: Courtney Patterson
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Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served in every service branch, in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. Military analyst Lena Andrews corrects the record with the definitive and comprehensive historical account of American servicewomen during World War II, based on new archival research, firsthand interviews with surviving veterans, and a deep professional understanding of military history and strategy.
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A bit disappointing
- De Fact addict en 10-08-23
De: Lena S. Andrews
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My Dream Time
- A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork
- De: Ashleigh Barty
- Narrado por: Miranda Tapsell
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I’m only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that’s young to write a memoir. Who does that, right? But for me and my team it’s always been important to reflect on every part of the journey, especially the end. In that context, the timing is perfect to share my story, from the first time I picked up a racquet as a 5-year-old girl to the night I packed up my tennis bag after winning the 2022 Australian Open.
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Relentless
- De Bing Eastburn en 08-27-23
De: Ashleigh Barty
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Heretic
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Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor’s son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no denying the truth that lived under that conviction: she was queer and, if she wanted to survive, she would need to leave behind the church and every foundational building block she knew. Heretic is a memoir of rebirth. Within, Kadlec reckons with religious trauma and Midwestern values, as a means of unveiling how evangelicalism directly impacts every American--religious or not--and has been a major force in driving our democracy towards fascism.
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Average story about faith and being LGBTQ
- De A. Sampson en 11-26-23
De: Jeanna Kadlec
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Why Bob Dylan Matters
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- Learning everyday
- 09-28-21
Brilliant analysis of Dylan's work
Although Thomas' work covers Dylan's entire career, this book's focus is on his latest work including the album he declares a masterwork, Tempest. I like some of the ideas Thomas brings up especially his discussion of triads in Dylan's catalog. By reading this book, it's easy to understand why Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-20-20
why Bob matters
better than I expected narrator was excellent more in-depth than I expected
glad I bought it
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- J.B.
- 12-01-17
His Work is Talmudic; But He is Only A Man
Why Bob Dylan Matters, by Richard F. Thomas, and narrated By Nick Landrum. Professor Thomas is a classical (Greek/Roman) literature professor. That means he studies fate; under the command of the gods, and man’s function and duties within that realm. That’s a perfect background for studying Homer, Sophocles, Euripides and Ovid; but does it translate into an insight into Dylan? Maybe not so much.
What Professor Thomas has to say in heling us understand Bob Dylan is somewhat interesting, but not sufficiently insightful for me to recommend this as a must read. I found most of this work to be a rambling dive into who was Bob Dylan at the time he wrote his original (1960s through mid-1970) works, and what may have occurred to him since that early time that affects his later day works. Only the final two chapters were probative into what Dylan provided western literature.
There is one part of the story I found fulfilling. It seems Dylan has taken parts of other great authors, poets and philosopher’s works and incorporated their exact or like statements into his work. This, as is well explained in the book, is not an act of plagiarism. Rather, a deeper dive into the concepts previously provided by the earlier writers. For example, a lot of Dylan’s such undertakings came from the Roman poet, Vigil. (In fact, Vigil, like Dylan, took from others to create his poetry, as well.) Since, Dr. Thomas is a classical expert, which thus includes a good understanding of Vigil and his times, there was much substance to these arguments, and this was the most interesting and learning part of the work. There seems to exist poetic licenses to take from others their insights and incorporate that combination of words or thoughts into your own. As explained by Dr. Thomas, it is not theft; it is love. (Is that where the title Love and Theft comes from?)
I think those who try to delve into and explain poetry by figuring out the poet’s nature at the time his/her work was written is absurdly wrong because knowing the poet’s nature does not teach you the ephemeral drift into thought and insights that poetry permits. One must concentrate on the words, not the author’s history. One might even hypothesize, a poem has little or nothing to do with its author. It has to do with the reader. What does the work invoke in the reader?
Perhaps that is why Bob Dylan is always so annoyed with his purveyors; those who seek to report on Dylan and those that want to tell us what he meant. Dylan wrote the stuff and if you enjoy it, it is not Dylan that is providing the meaning. He, with great genius, provides the lattice for which the reader must develop a full flagged structure.
Yet, I do not mean to totally discourage you from this read. This read does provide one with remembrances as Dr. Thomas reviews the famous landmarks of Dylan’s work product. This is a good trip down memory lane and provides an opportunity to remember where when and with whom you were at the time of that Dylan Album.
When the audio speaks, my eye catches a flash off into the corner of my peripheral ability.
Something like the effects of thunder storms behind a cloudy sky.
Then I am left with the ozone to drift upon, and provide a lie for me to lay within.
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- TL
- 08-06-18
Good book bad Bob Dylan impersonation
This was an insightful book into the sophistication of Bob Dylan’s work. My only complaint about the narrator is that he did a good job except he does an annoying impersonation of Bob Dylan’s voice every time the author quotes Dylan.
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- Mooshy
- 08-26-22
The best Bob Dylan book ever written
I am a lifelong Dylan fan and can’t - or couldn’t read enough about him until this book. It is excellent-the most substantial, comprehensive and fascinating biography of the mysterious icon that is Bob Dylan. I have listened to this book several times and always hear something new that I somehow missed the time before. And I’m not done yet. There is so much there, it’s impossible to to take it all in at one -or five times. It is beautifully read as well. None of the other Dylan books come close to being this good and I have read most of them.
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- Paul in Maryland
- 01-14-18
couldn't wait for it to end
I've never thought much of Dylan's Tunes or lyrics. I thought even less of his voice. The only reason I read this book is that my daughter is about to marry a young man whose first name is Dylan. Yes, the young man's parents named him after Bob Dylan. Their hero. I figured I owed it to my Dylan and his parents to see what the fuss was about. Listening to this book was excruciating. The author cites examples of Dylan genius. Genius? You've got to be kidding me. He's no Stephen Sondheim or Billy Joel. to me, this book simply reaffirmed why I thought Dylan is a second or third rate pretender.
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- Buretto
- 11-27-17
Classical Dylan
I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook. It's exactly the kind of book on Dylan I've been waiting for. I've been a fan since I was a kid in the '70s, when Street Legal was the very first album I ever owned. I've steadfastly resisted the attempts at interpretive biographies, as if these authors presume to explain the the masses what Dylan himself has left enigmatic.
This is different. It's much more involved with Dylan's connection to the classical structure of literature and storytelling. There are the periodic references to Suze Rotola and Sara Lownds, and others involved in Dylan's life, but they are presented as characters in the epic stories that Dylan refashions from Ovid, Homer, Rimbaud and others.
The author, clearly a huge fan himself, may have underestimated the negative reaction amongst the more snobbish literary types regarding Dylan's Nobel Prize. I know of several who were beside themselves in horror. But I suspect Dylan might regard them as the right types of enemies to have.
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- Ex
- 11-26-19
good, but too into it's subject
very interesting and a vital analysis of a vital subject. that said, towards the end, there's quiet a lot of too-deep analysis, grasping at words somehow as hints, almost in the paranoid style. I feel like there's more obvious connections to be made left unsaid.
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- Sean Girardin
- 03-09-21
Way over the top
Dylan is on my music Mt. Rushmore. He’s a genius. But this book came off way too often as Boomer historical hyperbole, which made it hard to even listen to in some stretches. Think I’ll go listen to Blonde On Blonde now...
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