Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973

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Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973 Pub. Date: 4/1/2009 Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

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By far the most comprehensive book on Bob Dylan’s words ever written, including a number of songs that no one has ever heard, this first volume will fundamentally change how his lyrics are interpreted and understood. Arranged in a surprising chronology of when they were actually written rather than when they appeared on albums—the middle verse of “Blowin’ in the Wind” was written much later than the first and third verses, and the songs on John Wesley Harding were written prior to some of the songs on The Basement Tapes—hundreds of surprising facts are uncovered in this catalog of 300 songs, spanning his career prior to Blood on the Tracks. Newly discovered manuscripts, anecdotal evidence, and a seemingly limitless knowledge of every Dylan live performance contribute to this definitive resource of the words of a celebrated American singer-songwriter.

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These indispensable new books of Bob Dylan criticism carry on important critical traditions. Dettmar's (Is Rock Dead?) compilation of critical essays and reviews, like The Bob Dylan Companion: Four Decades of Commentary and Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, among others, is being marketed as a classroom text to support the growing number of college courses offered on Dylan. Its 17 essays are divided between "Perspectives" (e.g., Dylan and religion, Dylan and gender, Dylan as a performer) and "Landmark Albums." In this latter section, an unexpected choice is Infidels(1983), ably critiqued by novelist Jonathan Lethem. The historian Eric Lott writes on Love and Theft(2001), a wickedly appropriate match-up since Dylan took his album title from Lott's book of the same name.

In his fourth book on Dylan, Heylin provides an encyclopedic account of every song written by Dylan, from his juvenile efforts in the late 1950s to songs from Planet Waves in 1973; a second volume is promised. The songs are arranged chronologically, according to the date written, and range in length from a few sentences to several pages. The longer entries are not surprising-e.g., "Like a Rolling Stone" gets eight pages, and "Blowin' in the Wind" gets five. The book's great value is the discovery of many songs that Dylan either never performed or exist only on hard-to-find bootlegs. For each of the 300 songs, the first known performance and studio versions are cited, and Heylin offers analysis from his close reading of Dylan's life and career. This fascinating book is a perfect companion to Heylin's Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, 1960-1994 and will have the samehypnotic effect on Dylan fans as Michael Gray's The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. Like the Cambridge Companion, it is highly recommended for academic libraries.
—Thomas A. Karel

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781556528439
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2009
Pages: 496
Sales rank: 626,017
Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 4.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Clinton Heylin is the author of Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades, Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk, Still on the Road, and several other books.

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Dubious141

Posted February 18, 2012

The Story Bbehind Every Dylan Song-And More!

Clinton Heylin brings his encyclopedic knowledge of Bob Dylan' to tell us the story behind every song. One of our our premier "Dylanologists" digs deep into each song, both known and unknown, from 1957-1973. Heylin amplifies on what Dylan was doing that got the results we call the Dylan Canon. This is good stuff for hardcore fans. For example, he describes the time, place and circumstances that resulted in "It's A Hard Rains A'Gonna Fall." it's not the usual story we've been told in the past. This book will expand your knowledge of Bob Dylan and his work enormously.
Dubious141
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