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BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA
By: Sean Wilentz
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 Americaโs finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the countryโs greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovยญered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylanโs work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentzโs essays as โhistorian in residenceโ of Dylanโs official website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinityโa 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. Wilentzโs approach places Dylanโs 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 songยญwriter 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 Dylanโs story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with an unprecedented authenticity and richness. Bob Dylan in Americaโgroundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbingโis the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.
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