Description
Book SynopsisA multi-disciplinary set of essays revolving around the routes of Bob Dylan’s cultural appropriations.
Table of ContentsPart I: Intro
1. Refractions of Bob Dylan: an introduction – Eugen Banauch
2. Dylan’s Americanness in 1960s Britain – Michael Gray
Part II: Dylan abroad
3. Bob Dylan in Switzerland: a classic case of ‘love and theft’ – Martin Schäfer
4. Localising Dylan: political and musical narratives in Italy – Andrea Cossu
5. Not there: the poetics of absence in portrayals of Bob Dylan by Wolf Biermann and Ilse Aichinger – John Heath
Part III: Who is not there
6. Bob Dylan’s protean style – Ben Giamo
7. ‘I don’t believe you ... you’re a liar’: the fabulatory function of Bob Dylan – Rob Coley
8. The ghost of Bob Dylan: spectrality and performance in I’m Not There – Susanne Hamscha
9. Mr Pound, Mr Eliot, and Mr Dylan: USA and Europe, modernity and modernism – Leighton Grist
Part IV: Dylan critics
10. Time out of mind: Bob Dylan and Paul Nelson transformed – John Frederick Bell
11. Greil Marcus and Bob Dylan: the writer and his singer – Jean-Martin Büttner
Part V: Dylan appropriated
12. Tell-tale signs: self-deception in Dylan – Paul Fagan and Mark Shanahan
13. ‘Yes, it’s a very funny song.’: spoken intros and the seriousness of Bob Dylan’s Halloween show – Paul Keckeis
14. Surplus and demand or too much to ask: (in)appropriating Dylan – Robert McColl
15. Plagiarism, Bob, Jean-Luc, and me – Stephen Scobie
Part VI: Outro
16. The evolution of fan culture and the impact of technology on the Never Ending Tour – Clinton Heylin and Michelle Engert
Index
