Nothing Synthetic about It
Translating Bob Dylan’s Domestic and International Civil Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Russell Roberts (Brigham Young University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Transnational American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-0764 • E-ISSN: 1940-0764 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5070/t814262472 |
| OpenAlex | W4388373269 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.--Bob Dylan, "Mississippi"was thinking of a series of dreams Where nothing comes up to the top Everything stays down where it's wounded And comes to a permanent stop --Bob Dylan, "Series of Dreams" At age 19, hailing from the Minnesota mining town of Hibbing, Bob Dylan arrived in New York City's Greenwich Village and began (in music critic and Dylan biographer Robert Shelton's words) "sopping up influences like a sponge." 1 As he did so, the idea of writing his own songs began to crystallize. 2 He became a habitu of the Village's coffeehouse district, where he played traditional folk songs and found comrades and associates among discussers of music, theater, literature, film, and dance.He saw foreign art films. 3He mingled with choreographers, filmmakers, theater directors, and folk singers-among them the folksinger Dave Van Ronk
Art history · Epistemology · Media studies · Nothing · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |