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Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss, editors PRESS: Watch editor Thomas Swiss speaking about Bob Dylan and Highway 61 Revisited. |
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New essays consider Dylan’s latest work, his Minnesota roots, and his global reach The young man from Hibbing released Highway 61 Revisited in 1965, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? From his roots in Hibbing, to his rise as a cultural icon in New York, to his prominence on the worldwide stage, Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss bring together the most eminent Dylan scholars at work today—as well as people from such far-reaching fields as labor history, African American studies, and Japanese studies—to assess Dylan’s career, influences, and his global impact on music and culture. The Dylan effect has extended far beyond the United States in recent decades, and the essays here analyze his contribution to the people and cultures of the United Kingdom, Italy, and Japan. With a special focus on his Minnesota roots, including Greil Marcus’s spectacular tour of Dylan’s hometown, authors also take into account his most recent work and Martin Scorsese’s documentary No Direction Home. The first cultural and historical geography of his dramatic rise, storied career, and unmatched iconic status, Highway 61 Revisited maps the terrain of Bob Dylan’s music in the world. “This new collection of scholarly articles on Bob Dylan proves that there are new angles from which to approach his life, his artistic evolution, and his unmatched influence on music and culture. Dylan is inarguably one of the most dissected and discussed artists, musical or otherwise, of the last half-century, and these 20 distinctive, thoughtful, and erudite essays by, e.g., Greil Marcus and international academics from a variety of disciplines such as linguistics, music theory, and African American studies are all welcome additions.” —Library Journal “The significance of Dylan’s work to people of all backgrounds and interests is reflected clearly in the rich tapestry these authors and their essays represent. Take the time to read, reflect, and savor the depth of writing collected here. It surely will stand for many years as one of the most thoughtful additions to any person’s Dylan collection.” —Talkin’ Blues “An uncommonly intelligent collection of 20 essays about Bob Dylan’s origins and influence. This book asks new questions and, most significantly, amply illustrates that Dylan scholarship can be lively without being trivial and serious without being pedantic.” —The Best American Poetry “It surely will stand for many years as one of the most thoughtful additions to any person’s Dylan collection.” —Hibbing Daily Tribune “A mind-altering gift. . . . Enlightening.” —Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine Contributors: John Barner, U of Georgia; Daphne Brooks, Princeton U; Court Carney, Stephen F. Austin State U; Alessandro Carrera, U of Houston; Michael Cherlin, U of Minnesota; Marilyn J. Chiat; Susan Clayton; Mick Cochrane, Canisius College; Thomas Crow, New York U; Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Pomona College; Sumanth Gopinath, U of Minnesota; Charles Hughes; C. P. Lee, U of Salford, Manchester, England; Alex Lubet, U of Minnesota; Greil Marcus, U of California, Berkeley; Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State U; Roberto Polito, The New School; Robert Reginio, Frostburg State U; Heather Stur, U of Southern Mississippi; Mikiko Tachi, Chiba U, Japan; Gayle Wald, George Washington U; Anne Waldman, Naropa U; David Yaffe, Syracuse U. Colleen J. Sheehy is director of education at the Weisman Art Museum. Her books include Cabinet of Curiosities: Mark Dion and the University as Installation (Minnesota, 2006). Thomas Swiss is professor of culture and teaching at the University of Minnesota. His books include Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture and New Media Poetics. 312 pages | 23 b&w photos | 7 x 10 | 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Part I. Highway 61, from North to South 2. Jewish Homes on the Range, 1890–1960 3. Not from Nowhere: Identity and Aspiration in Bob Dylan’s Hometown 4. “A Lamp Is Burning in All Our Dark”: Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash 5. Allowed to Be Free: Bob Dylan and the Civil Rights Movement Part II. Planet Waves 7. Like the Night: Reception and Reaction Dylan UK 1966 8. Oh, the Streets of Rome: Dylan in Italy 9. Bob Dylan’s Reception in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s 10. Borderless Troubadour: Bob Dylan’s Influence on International Protest during the Cold War Part III. The Ancients, Whom All Moderns Prize 12. Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace 13. Among Schoolchildren: Dylan’s Forty Years in the Classroom Part IV. In a Voice without Restraint 15. Crow Jane Approximately: Bob Dylan’s Black Masque 16. Not Dark Yet: How Bob Dylan Got His Groove Back 17. “Nettie Moore”: Minstrelsy and the Cultural Economy of Race in Bob Dylan’s Late Albums 18. “Somewhere down in the United States”: The Art of Bob Dylan’s Ventriloquism 19. Dylan/Disabled: Tolling for the Deaf and Blind 20. Bob Dylan and the Beats: Magpie Poetics, an Investigation and Memoir Acknowledgments |
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