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<p>A lively set of new essays on Dylan's work as a writer and composer and on his place in American culture.</p> <h3>Thomas A. Karel - Library Journal</h3> <p><P>These indispensable new books of Bob Dylan criticism carry on important critical traditions. Dettmar's (<i>Is Rock Dead?</i>) compilation of critical essays and reviews, like <i>The Bob Dylan Companion: Four Decades of Commentary</i> and <i>Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader</i>, among others, is being marketed as a classroom text to support the growing number of college courses offered on Dylan. Its 17 essays are divided between Perspectives (e.g., Dylan and religion, Dylan and gender, Dylan as a performer) and Landmark Albums. In this latter section, an unexpected choice is <i>Infidels</i>(1983), ably critiqued by novelist Jonathan Lethem. The historian Eric Lott writes on <i>Love and Theft</i>(2001), a wickedly appropriate match-up since Dylan took his album title from Lott's book of the same name.</P><P>In his fourth book on Dylan, Heylin provides an encyclopedic account of every song written by Dylan, from his juvenile efforts in the late 1950s to songs from <i>Planet Waves</i> in 1973; a second volume is promised. The so

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Author
Kevin J H Dettmar, 1958-
Publisher
Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521714945
Category
music
Subjects
Fiction, Memoir, Reference
Rating
3.71 / 5 (39 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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