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“Infinity Goes Up on Trial” focuses on ideas central to the depth of Bob Dylan’s music, art, and writing in a broader social, cultural, and political context.
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Twenty-Five Years of “Love & Theft”: “Everybody Get Ready to Lift Up Your Glasses and Sing” (opens the original)
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From the fade into the opening track, “Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum,” Bob Dylan launches listeners into the aural landscape of “Love and Theft,” his 31st studio album that honors the history and influence of black music on American culture. The album is a bricolage of contemplations of movement, mortality, love, and life that borrows from both black musical traditions and myriad other historical, cultural, social, and literary influences. In this way, “Love and Theft” is firmly rooted in Dylan&
Bob Dylan in Cincinnati: A Conversation with Graley Herren (opens the original)
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Bob Dylan in Cincinnati: A Conversation with Graley HerrenIn his Nobel lecture, Bob Dylan famously wrote, “Our songs are alive in the land of the living. But songs are unlike literature. They’re meant to be sung, not read. The words in Shakespeare’s plays were meant to be read on the stage. Just as lyrics in songs are meant to sung, not read on a page. And I hope some of you get the chance to listen to these lyrics the way they were intended to be heard: in concert or on a record or however peop
A Genius in Fragments: A Conversation with Anne Margaret Daniel (opens the original)
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There are myriad aspects of Bob Dylan’s work, life, and creative process that have long fascinated me. The first is the storied post-motorcycle accident hiatus he took to live a relatively normal life in bucolic Woodstock, New York. During that period, he lived a small-town life with his family and created the first bootleg recording songs in the basement of Big Pink with members of the Band. The Great White Wonder, later The Basement Tapes, are some of Dylan’s most interesting covers and compos
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