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[Mike Marqusee] ✓ Chimes of Freedom ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Chimes of Freedom Following his acclaimed study of Muhammad Ali, Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee again demonstrates an engaging ability to fuse biography and politics, storytelling and original insight.. A celebration of the great songsmith's political engagement. But, as Mike Marqusee's compelling new book makes clear, behind the anarchy and playfulness of Dylan's imagery lie meanings that are often highly charged with political and social concerns. Bob Dylan's lyrics are at once abstruse and evocative, ur
| Title | : | Chimes of Freedom |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (731 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 156584825X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
Freedom Chimes This is the third book on Dylan I have read in the last couple of weeks, and by coincidence they all take quite different approaches that serve to sharpen the contrasts in how Dylan's lyrics are interpreted. The first two, by Marqusee and Ricks are essentially contextualist. Ricks' context is the canon of Anglo Saxon poetry and literature which, I presume, he thinks enables us to understand better Dylan's lyrics (his choice of what is great poetry in Dylan is eccentric). Marqusee tak. "What a remarkable book" according to David I. Schulman. I have been waiting a for a book with this level of political sophistication for a long time. It's finally here. Marqusee sees the politics in America in the 1960s in its complexity, and Dylan's music equally so. As a result, he avoids the cliches about both and teases out many new insights and comments. Bravo! An especially important book for young activists. Marqusee clears away the romance and the clutter of those years so that you can better appreciate the difficulty of struggle
Mike Marqusee is the author of a number of groundbreaking books on politics and popular culture, including Anyone But England; War Minus the Shooting; and Redemption Song. An American, he has lived in London for 30 years.
"He was a magpie," Marqusee writes. Marqusee, who turned 14 in 1967, knows the territory: he used the same historical format to re-examine another American hero in Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties. He charts Dylan's rapid transformations-from reluctant protest singer to Newport Folk Festival "dandy," then introverted pragmatist behind The Basement Tapes-alongside the decade's defining events: the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, Woodstock. . He briefly explores the impact of artists like Woody Guthrie, Allen Ginsberg and Curtis Mayfield on Dylan, and explores well-docum
Following his acclaimed study of Muhammad Ali, Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee again demonstrates an engaging ability to fuse biography and politics, storytelling and original insight.. A celebration of the great songsmith's political engagement. But, as Mike Marqusee's compelling new book makes clear, behind the anarchy and playfulness of Dylan's imagery lie meanings that are often highly charged with political and social concerns. Bob Dylan's lyrics are at once abstruse and evocative, urgent and timeless. He shows the way folk tradition, modernism, and commercial popular culture are sublimely fused in Dylan's masterworks of the mid-1960s, notably on the albums Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, and discusses the artist's quest for American identity—amid the continuing carnage in Vietnam and growing chaos at home—in The Basement Tapes. "Keep a good head and carry a light bulb."—Bob Dylan's response to the question "What is your advice for young people?", London 1962. It was blues and folk songs that first led Bob Dylan to politics. But it was politics that unlocked his own astonishing songwriting ability, evidenced by dazzlin
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