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Yale University Press Folk Music A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs_x000D__x000D_"The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan's imagination better. . . . Folk Music . . . [is an] ingenious book of close listening."-David Remnick, New Yorker_x000D__x000D_"Marcus delivers yet another essential work of music journalism."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)_x000D__x000D_"Further elevates Marcus to what he has always been: a supreme artist-critic."-Hilton Als_x000D__x000D_Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen._x000D__x000D_In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others." Like Dylan's songs, this book is a work of implicit patriotism and creative skepticism. It illuminates Dylan's continuing presence and relevance through his empathy-his imaginative identification with other people. This is not only a deeply felt telling of the life and times of Bob Dylan but a rich history of American folk songs and the new life they were given as Dylan sat down to write his own._x000D_show more