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04-29-2010, 12:51 AM
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Jeff
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This course is all about how Bob Dylans song were wrote. The School is Dalhousie University located in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Bob Dylan and the Literature of the Sixties
Prof. Andrew Wainwright
MWF 9:30-10:30
Description:
Bob Dylan is one of the most important figures to have participated in and emerged from a remarkable era of political and social upheaval in North America and Western Europe. A considerable amount of this upheaval was centered in the United States in the form of the Civil Rights Movement, protests against the war in Vietnam, and subversive acts against the American government. It was accompanied by a counter-cultural explosion of literary expression that shaped and was shaped by the politics of the times. This explosion included the ‘beat’ writing of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; the novels of Black Americans such as Alice Walker; the front-line dispatches of Michael Herr; the feminist poetics of Adrienne Rich; and revisions of America in the fiction of James Dickey.
Dylan was strongly influenced by sixties culture, and his music and lyrics left a profound mark on the decade. His greatest creative period was between 1963-68 when he produced the following albums: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a Changin’, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, and John Wesley Harding, containing such memorable songs as “Masters of War,” “The Times They Are a Changin’,” “Chimes of Freedom,” “Mister Tambourine Man,” “Gates of Eden,” “Desolation Row,” “Visions of Johanna,” and “All Along the Watchtower.”
These works, and others by Dylan, have significantly altered the ways in which defenders of both high and popular culture have responded over the past thirty-five years to specific political and social issues, as well as to more personal questions of self-expression and responsibility.
The first term will involve the study of a number of works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that impacted on Dylan directly and/or contextualize the origins and meanings of many of his songs. In the second term, discussion will focus on Dylan’s major lyrics from the sixties, along with several later songs, that not only reflect his concerns with equality and injustice, but also his ability to present alternatives to violence and spiritual malaise.
Prof. Andrew Wainwright
MWF 9:30-10:30
Description:
Bob Dylan is one of the most important figures to have participated in and emerged from a remarkable era of political and social upheaval in North America and Western Europe. A considerable amount of this upheaval was centered in the United States in the form of the Civil Rights Movement, protests against the war in Vietnam, and subversive acts against the American government. It was accompanied by a counter-cultural explosion of literary expression that shaped and was shaped by the politics of the times. This explosion included the ‘beat’ writing of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; the novels of Black Americans such as Alice Walker; the front-line dispatches of Michael Herr; the feminist poetics of Adrienne Rich; and revisions of America in the fiction of James Dickey.
Dylan was strongly influenced by sixties culture, and his music and lyrics left a profound mark on the decade. His greatest creative period was between 1963-68 when he produced the following albums: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a Changin’, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, and John Wesley Harding, containing such memorable songs as “Masters of War,” “The Times They Are a Changin’,” “Chimes of Freedom,” “Mister Tambourine Man,” “Gates of Eden,” “Desolation Row,” “Visions of Johanna,” and “All Along the Watchtower.”
These works, and others by Dylan, have significantly altered the ways in which defenders of both high and popular culture have responded over the past thirty-five years to specific political and social issues, as well as to more personal questions of self-expression and responsibility.
The first term will involve the study of a number of works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that impacted on Dylan directly and/or contextualize the origins and meanings of many of his songs. In the second term, discussion will focus on Dylan’s major lyrics from the sixties, along with several later songs, that not only reflect his concerns with equality and injustice, but also his ability to present alternatives to violence and spiritual malaise.
Im interested, anyone else?
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