Bob Dylan - Couverture souple

Negus, Professor Keith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 025322005X ISBN 13 : 9780253220059

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Negus Keith

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time. His lyrics provided inspiration to countless performers and pointed the popular song in a new direction. With some justification he has been celebrated as a poet, philosopher or seer: his wordplay the subject of repeated study and analysis. Yet, his lyrics are sung. His songs are music. In this concise profile Keith Negus presents Bob Dylan primarily as musician, focusing on the qualities of Dylan songs that have received little attention, such as melody, rhythm, instrumental texture, and Dylan's performing voice. He also explores the way Dylan's musical sensibility has been shaped by blues and folk ballad traditions and highlights how he has frequently created unique musical identities by intensely personalising borrowed phrases, tunes or riffs. In tracing the various phases of a career that has lasted almost half a century, Negus stresses the centrality of performance to Dylan's life as a musician and songwriter, as well as detailing the way Dylan has treated his songs as continually open to change and re-arrangement in concert. Through listening to his words as sounds, rhythms and tunes in the air rather than reading them as prose on a page, we can gain an insight into one of the most enigmatic, enthralling yet unpredictable popular musicians.

Biographie de l'auteur

Keith Negus is based in the Department of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 025322005X
• ISBN 13: 9780253220059
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible