Donald Brown. (2023). Bob Dylan: American Troubadour. Rowman & Littlefield.

Donald Brown. 2023. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour. Rowman & Littlefield.

Donald Brown, Bob Dylan: American Troubadour. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

Donald Brown. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

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   • bioText: Donald Brown is an editor, theater critic, and book reviewer at The New Haven Review. He teaches at Yale and since 2006 has commented on music, movies, and books on blogocentrism. He has a degree in Art History and Comparative Literature from the University of Delaware and a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, where he studied as a Mellon fellow.
     
     
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“The book’s strength is a thorough assessment of Dylan’s career, album by album, song by song. Both longtime fans and newcomers . . . will appreciate.” —Library Journal
With Bob Dylan’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature, his iconic status as an American musical, cultural, and poetic giant has never been more apparent. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour is the first book to look at Dylan’s career, from his first album to his masterpiece Tempest. Donald Brown provides insightful critical commentary on Dylan’s prolific body of work, placing Dylan’s career in the context of its time in order to assess the relationship of Dylan’s music to contemporary American culture.
Each chapter follows the shifting versions of Dylan, from his songs of conscientious social involvement to more personal exploratory songs; from his influential rock albums of the mid-1960s to his adaptations of country music; from his three very different tours in the 1970s to his “born again” period as a proselytizer for Christ and his frustrations as a recording and performing artist in the 1980s; from his retrospective importance in the 1990s to the refreshingly vital albums he has been producing in the 21st century.
“This concise examination of the Dylan corpus is especially good for younger generations who may want to better understand how a musician in his early seventies can still be so compelling and relevant in twenty-first-century America.”. —Booklist
 
 “Fascinating . . . Highly recommended. All readers.  —Choice Reviews
“A nearly album by album retrospective of one of the most culturally significant and musically influential musicians in modern history.” —Examiner
“A must read for Dylan enthusiasts.”  —Journal of American Culture
 

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   • content: Many studies of Bob Dylan's life and career have been overly comprehensive, to the delight of his obsessive fans. It is refreshing to read editor, theater critic, and blogger Brown's crisp and concise contribution to Dylan scholarship. The author organizes the book into nine chronological periods of the musician's ever-changing life, up through the release of Tempest in 2012. Along the way he references key national and world events and cultural influences that were relevant to Dylan's creative output. The narrative flows smoothly, and many songs receive a paragraph of mini-interpretation. The final section, covering the years 2000–12, is especially interesting as it documents the unexpected resurgence of Dylan's career with three major albums and relentless touring. Brown devotes much more space to a close reading of the newer songs. VERDICT Brown proves that he is very well versed in all things Dylan with this very accessible work. While it covers familiar territory, the book's strength is a thorough assessment of Dylan's career, album by album, song by song. Both longtime fans and newcomers to Dylan's work will appreciate Brown's approach.
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   • content: Cultural critic Brown explores the entire catalogue of Bob Dylan in tandem with the social, political, and personal events that unfolded over the course of the artist's lifetime. Emphasizing the dual history approach, the book begins by aligning Dylan's timeline with the national one. Dylan performs at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, reads Joseph Conrad while recording 'Blood on The Tracks,' and influenced by the women in his life, moves towards religious music in the early 80s. Brown dissects almost every song on each of Dylan's albums, including the records he produced in the late 80s, which he admits represent a 'nadir' for the artist. The string of in-depth, song-by-song album reviews are glued together with quick history lessons. Many writers have already explored Dylan in his historical context, including most of the great first wave of pop critics, like Ellen Willis and Greil Marcus, as well as academic historians such as Princeton's Sean Wilentz. Brown is thorough in his analysis
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   • content: In nine fascinating chronological chapters, music and literature critic Donald Brown analyzes Bob Dylan's recording career. Drawing on an array of published sources but mostly the recordings themselves, the author begins with 'Becoming Bob Dylan.' Because of the plethora of Dylan biographies, many listed in the helpful bibliography . . . . Brown offers limited biographical details and...
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     December 9, 2013
     Cultural critic Brown explores the entire catalogue of Bob Dylan in tandem with the social, political, and personal events that unfolded over the course of the artist's lifetime. Emphasizing the dual history approach, the book begins by aligning Dylan's timeline with the national one. Dylan performs at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, reads Joseph Conrad while recording "Blood on The Tracks," and influenced by the women in his life, moves towards religious music in the early 80s. Brown dissects almost every song on each of Dylan's albums, including the records he produced in the late 80s, which he admits represent a "nadir" for the artist. The string of in-depth, song-by-song album reviews are glued together with quick history lessons. Many writers have already explored Dylan in his historical context, including most of the great first wave of pop critics, like Ellen Willis and Greil Marcus, as well as academic historians such as Princeton's Sean Wilentz. Brown is thorough in his analysis, but Dylan may not need more of this treatment.

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     Many studies of Bob Dylan's life and career have been overly comprehensive, to the delight of his obsessive fans. It is refreshing to read editor, theater critic, and blogger Brown's crisp and concise contribution to Dylan scholarship. The author organizes the book into nine chronological periods of the musician's ever-changing life, up through the release of Tempest in 2012. Along the way he references key national and world events and cultural influences that were relevant to Dylan's creative output. The narrative flows smoothly, and many songs receive a paragraph of mini-interpretation. The final section, covering the years 2000-12, is especially interesting as it documents the unexpected resurgence of Dylan's career with three major albums and relentless touring. Brown devotes much more space to a close reading of the newer songs. VERDICT Brown proves that he is very well versed in all things Dylan with this very accessible work. While it covers familiar territory, the book's strength is a thorough assessment of Dylan's career, album by album, song by song. Both longtime fans and newcomers to Dylan's work will appreciate Brown's approach.--Thomas Karel, Franklin & Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, PA

     Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     January 1, 2014
     In recent years there has been a plethora of books on the enigmatic Mr. Dylan, but this entry in Rowman & Littlefield's Tempo music series on rock, pop, and culture is a bit different as it explores Dylan's music through the lens of social and cultural history. In nine fascinating chapters, Brown, a freelance writer and editor, follows Dylan chronologically through his career, from young troubadour in Greenwich Village who unwittingly became the spokesman of a generation through his controversial electric transformation to the rural glory of the Basement Tapes to his richly creative Blood on the Tracks period to his born-again phase to his current renaissance as a rock elder and cultural force. Brown's discussion of individual songs and albums is particularly insightful. This concise examination of the Dylan corpus is especially good for younger generations who may want to better understand how a musician in his early seventies can still be so compelling and relevant in twenty-first-century America. A useful Dylan and cultural-events time line and an annotated discography round out the volume.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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“The book’s strength is a thorough assessment of Dylan’s career, album by album, song by song. Both longtime fans and newcomers . . . will appreciate.” —Library Journal
With Bob Dylan’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature, his iconic status as an American musical, cultural, and poetic giant has never been more apparent. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour is the first book to look at Dylan’s career, from his first album to his masterpiece Tempest. Donald Brown provides insightful critical commentary on Dylan’s prolific body of work, placing Dylan’s career in the context of its time in order to assess the relationship of Dylan’s music to contemporary American culture.
Each chapter follows the shifting versions of Dylan, from his songs of conscientious social involvement to more personal exploratory songs; from his influential rock albums of...

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Chapter 1: Becoming Bob Dylan (1960-64)
Chapter 2: Electric Dylan (1965-66)
Chapter 3: Rural Glory (1967)
Chapter 4: Take Me As I Am (1968-73)
Chapter 5: Back in the Rain (1974-78)
Chapter 6: The Changing of the Guard (1978-81)
Chapter 7: Rock 'n' Roll Dreams (1983-90)
Chapter 8: Good Enough for Now (1989-97)
Chapter 9: Bob Dylan Revisited (2000-12)
Epilogue
Further Reading
Further Listening

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