The new film No Direction Home captures Bob Dylan in a period of transition, moving away from the acoustic-based folk songs on his earliest recordings into the incendiary blues-rock songs that would ...
If the Oscar nominations didn’t give artistic purists enough reasons to howl this week, there was the release of Miley Cyrus’ music video for her version of Bob Dylan’s “You’re Gonna Make You Lonesome ...
Bob Dylan has been lauded so often as "the poet laureate of rock 'n' roll" that even the man himself, who for decades protested the notion that he was speaking for anything but his own musical muse, ...
This intelligent analysis examines the enigmatic rock icon's musical development within the context of the political turbulence of the 1960s. Marqusee, who turned 14 in 1967, knows the territory: he ...
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In the half century since the world's foremost human rights group Amnesty was inaugurated, Dylan - whose recording career began the same year - remains unrivalled as the writer best capable of ...
Mike Marqusee, Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan's Art. New Press, 2003, 336 pages, $24.95. MORE NONSENSE has been written about Bob Dylan than perhaps any other popular artist in the ...
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - If the Oscar nominations didn't give artistic purists enough reasons to howl this week, there was the release of Miley Cyrus' music video for her version of Bob Dylan's ...