Bob Dylan

Living legend of American music and cultural journalism Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through six original songs and one folk song. He introduces the artist's sixty-year body of work and its roots in American folk music and history, and explores Dylan's enormous influence on the global art scene. And it does so in such a thorough and informed way that nothing like it can be found in a conventional biography.
How did the famous folk songs of Dylan's early years inspire the protest artists associated with the Black Lives Matter movement? What is the line between the ancient ballad about the murder of a black waitress and the work of avant-garde performance artist Laurie Anderson? Why did Dylan, at the ripe old age of 50, return to old folk songs and systematically record them for several years? And what does the defile of famous and obscure historical figures and song fragments in Murder Most Foul mean?

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