{"product_id":"bob-dylan-how-the-songs-work-paperback","title":"Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Hampton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan's songwriting\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBob Dylan's reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. \u003ci\u003eBob Dylan: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow the Songs Work\u003c\/i\u003e (originally published as \u003ci\u003eBob Dylan's Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e) is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan's compositions. It studies Dylan, not as a pop hero, but as an \u003ci\u003eartist\u003c\/i\u003e, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interpla\u003ci\u003ey\u003c\/i\u003e of music and lyric, it traces Dylan's innovative use of musical form, his complex manipulation of poetic diction, and his dialogues with other artists, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan's earliest experiments with the blues, through his mastery of rock and country, up to his densely allusive recent recordings, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan's achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism, the book studies the relationship between form, genre, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan's work. \u003ci\u003eBob Dylan: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow the Songs Work \u003c\/i\u003eoffers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Hampton\u003c\/b\u003e is the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professor of French and Comparative Literature and director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eFictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768802705696,"sku":"9781942130369","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/60621e87605fe98fa1a77b2d84d13b36.webp?v=1780337583","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bob-dylan-how-the-songs-work-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}