Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation : A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967

Renza, Louis A.

Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation : A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967 - New York Bloomsbury Academic 20171019

Open Access

Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan’s lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as “poems.” Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation instead focuses on how all of Dylan’s 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal “autobiography” in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons.


Creative Commons


English

9781501328558 9781501328541;9781501328534

10.5040/9781501328558 doi


Folk & traditional music

Literature Bob Dylan Song Lyric Interpretation Autobiography Folk Blues Rock'n Roll