Bob Dylan: The Philosophy of Modern Song
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Buch
- Simon + Schuster UK, 11/2022
- Einband: Gebunden, Hardback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781398519411
- Bestellnummer: 10893529
- Umfang: 339 Seiten
- Sonstiges: 4-c photos throughout
- Gewicht: 1035 g
- Maße: 270 x 198 mm
- Stärke: 32 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.11.2022
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One — and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyses what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence.
In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years and, like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.
Biografie
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmermann), geb. 1941 in Duluth/Minnesota. Idol in den 60ern, Star in den 70ern und seither Legende. Dylan hat in den letzten 40 Jahren die Geschichte der populären Musik geprägt wie kein anderer und gilt darüber hinaus als einer der großen und einflussreichsten Lyriker unserer Zeit. Bob Dylan
The Philosophy of Modern Song
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