Review: Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History , by Alessandro Portelli
2023; Wiley; Volume: 35; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.136
ISSN1533-1598
Autores Tópico(s)Music History and Culture
ResumoBook Review| December 01 2023 Review: Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History, by Alessandro Portelli Alessandro Portelli. Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2022. 192 pages. Sean Latham Sean Latham University of Tulsa Sean Latham is the Pauline McFarlin Walter Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa where he serves as director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Bob Dylan studies. He is the author of editor of ten book on modern literature and culture including Am I a Snob?, The Art of Scandal, and The World of Bob Dylan. Email: sean-latham@utulsa.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: sean-latham@utulsa.edu Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (4): 136–139. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.136 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sean Latham; Review: Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History, by Alessandro Portelli. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 December 2023; 35 (4): 136–139. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.136 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search Bob Dylan has plainly decided that the time has come to set things in order. The work began with the sale of his 6,000-item archive in 2016 and continued when the artist sold most of his core intellectual property rights for eye-watering sums to Universal (2020) and Sony (2022). Yes, he’s still touring, still writing songs, and even has a new book out on songwriting.1 In fact, if the vast scope of the Dylan Archive tells us anything, it’s that the artist has never stopped his alchemical work in the laboratory of the folk tradition. Still, the time is coming when the pen will drop and that unlovely voice will be entombed in vinyl, tape, digital bits, and the extravagant acetates T-Bone Burnett recently created.2 Dylan’s artistic estate planning actually began, however, with one of his first masterpieces: a young man’s furious will and testament crafted in the... You do not currently have access to this content.
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