Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs (Hardback) - Greil Marcus
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Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs"Marcus delivers yet another essential work of music journalism."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Just as Dylan allows a song to carry him away, readers will be transported by the sheer poetry of Marcus' prose."-June Sawyers, Booklist (starred review)
"Further elevates Marcus to what he has always been: a supreme artist-critic."-Hilton Als
Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen.
In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others." Like Dylan's songs, this book is a work of implicit patriotism and creative skepticism. It illuminates Dylan's continuing presence and relevance through his empathy-his imaginative identification with other people. This is not only a deeply felt telling of the life and times of Bob Dylan but a rich history of American folk songs and the new life they were given as Dylan sat down to write his own.
About the Author
Greil Marcus is the author of many books, from Mystery Train to Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America.- Contributor:
- Greil Marcus
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Release Date:
- 11 Oct 2022
- Number of Pages:
- 288
- Binding:
- Hardback
- ISBN13:
- 9780300255317
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