Refractions of Bob Dylan

Cultural Appropriations of an American Icon
Herausgeber: Banauch, Eugen

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Produktbeschreibung

Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have informed and productively re/shaped certain images of America from outside and within. Refractions of Bob Dylan collects scholarly essays which thoroughly investigate the routes of Bob Dylan's cultural appropriations. The collection looks at how Dylan has been used and interpreted by others, and how his work has been reworked into cultural expressions in culturally and regionally divergent spaces. Additionally, a number of essays look at what Dylan has appropriated and incorporated in his own work, focusing on questions of plagiarism, tribute, allusion, love and theft. Some of the essays originate from the Refractions of Bob Dylan conference in Vienna (www.dylanvienna.at) which took place around the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan, and included Dylan experts such as Clinton Heylin, Stephen Scobie and Michael Gray.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097164
• ISBN-10: 0719097169
• Artikelnr.: 42373881

Autorenporträt

Eugen Banauch is a literary and cultural studies scholar currently living and working in Vienna, Austria

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Intro 1. Refractions of Bob Dylan: an introduction
Eugen Banauch 2. Dylan's Americanness in 1960s Britain
Michael Gray Part II: Dylan abroad 3. Bob Dylan in Switzerland: a classic case of 'love and theft'
Martin Schäfer 4. Localising Dylan: political and musical narratives in Italy
Andrea Cossu 5. Not there: the poetics of absence in portrayals of Bob Dylan by Wolf Biermann and Ilse Aichinger
John Heath Part III: Who is not there 6. Bob Dylan's protean style
Ben Giamo 7. 'I don't believe you ... you're a liar': the fabulatory function of Bob Dylan
Rob Coley 8. The ghost of Bob Dylan: spectrality and performance in I'm Not There
Susanne Hamscha 9. Mr Pound, Mr Eliot, and Mr Dylan: USA and Europe, modernity and modernism
Leighton Grist Part IV: Dylan critics 10. Time out of mind: Bob Dylan and Paul Nelson transformed
John Frederick Bell 11. Greil Marcus and Bob Dylan: the writer and his singer
Jean
Martin Büttner Part V: Dylan appropriated 12. Tell
tale signs: self
deception in Dylan
Paul Fagan and Mark Shanahan 13. 'Yes, it's a very funny song.': spoken intros and the seriousness of Bob Dylan's Halloween show
Paul Keckeis 14. Surplus and demand or too much to ask: (in)appropriating Dylan
Robert McColl 15. Plagiarism, Bob, Jean
Luc, and me
Stephen Scobie Part VI: Outro 16. The evolution of fan culture and the impact of technology on the Never Ending Tour
Clinton Heylin and Michelle Engert Index