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• Bob Dylan

  Mixing Up the Medicine

  Davidson, Mark A., 1975-

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  Nearly a decade after acquiring the Bob Dylan archives, the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, opened to the public in May 2022. Their inaugural exhibits are expanded into this book; a career-spanning, show-and-tell reflecting the myriad dimensions of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Folk Music

  a Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

  Marcus, Greil,

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  Critic Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs.

• The Philosophy of Modern Song

  Dylan, Bob, 1941-

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  Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Double Life of Bob Dylan

  a Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966

  Heylin, Clinton,

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  A leading authority on Bob Dylan, Heylin plumbed the depths of the personal archive Dylan recently sold to the George Kaiser Foundation to offer this new look at the Nobel Prize laureate.

• Down the Highway

  the Life of Bob Dylan

  Sounes, Howard, 1965-

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  Chronicles the life of American music legend Bob Dylan, discussing his personal relationships, his songs, his love life, and his business affairs.

• 100 Songs

  Dylan, Bob, 1941-

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  An intimate and carefully curated collection of his most important lyrics that spans from the beginning of his career through the present day.

• The Lyrics

  1961-2012

  Dylan, Bob, 1941-

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  This collection contains Bob Dylan's lyrics, from his first album, Bob Dylan, to 2012's Tempest.

• Grown-up Anger

  the Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

  Wolff, Daniel J.,

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  A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bob Dylan

  All the Songs : the Story Behind Every Track

  Margotin, Philippe,

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  A comprehensive account of Bob Dylan's album cuts, bootlegs, and soundtrack recordings includes details that led to the composition of each song, what went on in the recording studio, and behind-the-scenes accounts of musicians on each track.

• Dylan Goes Electric!

  Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties

  Wald, Elijah

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  One of the music world's preeminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival.

• Bob Dylan

  American Troubadour

  Brown, Donald, 1959-

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  In nine fascinating chronological chapters, music and literature critic Donald Brown (Yale) analyzes Bob Dylan's recording career.

• The Dylanologists

  Adventurs in the Land of Bob

  Kinney, David A., 1960-

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  An analysis of Bob Dylan fandom shares insights into the music artist's influential role in American culture, contrasting the activities of particularly devout fans against Dylan's intensely private nature.

• Time Out of Mind

  the Lives of Bob Dylan

  Bell, Ian

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  The second part of a two-volume biography of the legendary musician picks up in the mid-1970s and follows his career through 1997, when he released an award-winning double album after not releasing any new material for seven years.

• Who Is That Man? : in Search of the Real Bob Dylan

  Dalton, David, 1942-2022

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  David Dalton--cultural historian, journalist, screenwriter, and novelist--paints a revealing portrait of the rock icon, ingeniously exposing the three-card monte games he plays with his persona.

• Bob Dylan in America

  Wilentz, Sean

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  A Grammy Award-nominated musical commentator and Bancroft Prize-winning author presents a historical assessment of Bob Dylan's music that draws on unprecedented access to rare materials and illuminates key cultural influences