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- The World of Bob Dylan
- The World of Bob Dylan
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Time to Say Goodbye Again
- Part I Creative Life
- Part II Musical Contexts
- Chapter 5 Folk Music
- Chapter 6 The Blues: “Kill Everybody Ever Done Me Wrong”
- Chapter 7 Gospel Music
- Chapter 8 Country Music: Dylan, Cash, and the Projection of Authenticity
- Chapter 9 Rock Music
- Chapter 10 Roots Music: Born in a Basement
- Chapter 11 The Great American Songbook
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Political Contexts
- Part V Reception and Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 6 - The Blues: “Kill Everybody Ever Done Me Wrong”
from Part II - Musical Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2021
- The World of Bob Dylan
- The World of Bob Dylan
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Time to Say Goodbye Again
- Part I Creative Life
- Part II Musical Contexts
- Chapter 5 Folk Music
- Chapter 6 The Blues: “Kill Everybody Ever Done Me Wrong”
- Chapter 7 Gospel Music
- Chapter 8 Country Music: Dylan, Cash, and the Projection of Authenticity
- Chapter 9 Rock Music
- Chapter 10 Roots Music: Born in a Basement
- Chapter 11 The Great American Songbook
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Political Contexts
- Part V Reception and Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
I’m going to be playing some songs tonight, but I’m not going to play excerpts or snippets, because when I play a song I’m playing it not as a way of illustrating a point, but as a fact: as a document of an event that took place at a certain time and place, involving certain people.1
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- The World of Bob Dylan , pp. 72 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021