Hard Rain : : Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History / / Alessandro Portelli.

Bob Dylan’s iconic 1962 song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. A visionary warning of impending apocalypse, it sets symbolist imagery within a structure that recalls a centuries-old form. Written at the height of the 1960s folk music revival am...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Columbia Oral History Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: Memory, Voice, and the Global Bob Dylan
  • 1 Songs of Innocence and Experience
  • 2 The Text and the Voice
  • 3 Talking Atomic Blues
  • 4 Which Way History?
  • Appendix. History’s lessons unlearned
  • NOTES
  • INDEX OF NAMES
  • INDEX OF ALBUMS
  • INDEX OF SONGS