Research Catalog

Title

Wicked messenger : Bob Dylan and the 1960s, Chimes of freedom, revised and expanded / Mike Marqusee.

Author

Marqusee, Mike.

Publication

New York : Seven Stories Press, c2005.

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Description

vii, 367 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Bob Dylan's abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of his critique to address the changing political and cultural climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic. Tracing the development of the [1960s] political and cultural dissent movements, Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were anticipated in the poetic aesthetic--anarchic, unaccountable, contradictory, punk--of Dylan's mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous. [Publisher web site].

Subject

• Dylan, Bob, 1941- > Criticism and interpretation
• Protest songs > United States > History and criticism
• Nineteen sixties
• United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally published: Chimes of freedom : the politics of Bob Dylan. New York : New Press, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-347), discography (p. 349-350), webology (p. 348), and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Whole Wide World Is Watchin' -- Not Much Is Really Sacred -- Little Boy Lost -- The Hour Is Getting Late -- Corruptible Seed -- Also by Mike Marqusee.

ISBN

• 1583226869 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781583226865

LCCN

• ^^2005007728
• 9781583226865

OCLC

702193960

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library