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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
September 2010
On Sale: September 7, 2010
400 pages
ISBN: 0385529880
EAN: 9780385529884
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan,
one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists,
still surprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovered
the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a
century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of
an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a
fan. Drawn in part from Wilentz’s essays as “historian in
residence” of Dylan’s official website, Bob Dylan in America
is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinity—a
book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes
shape as the occasion warrants. Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this
book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of
musical and literary work unique in our cultural history.
Wilentz’s approach places Dylan’s music in the context of
its time, including the early influences of Popular Front
ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical
appreciation of Dylan as both a songwriter and performer
down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to
studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other
materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylan’s story and
that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with an
unprecedented authenticity and richness. Bob Dylan in America—groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally
absorbing—is the result of an author and a subject
brilliantly met.
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