Book contents
- 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 11 - The Great American Songbook
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
Should we have been surprised? Bob Dylan himself says no, in his exceptionally useful “Uncut Interview.”2 Indeed, by the time of the release in 2015 of Shadows in the Night, the first in what has become a series of Great American Songbook albums by Dylan, we should have been well past the point of surprise at anything this amazing musical and stylistic chameleon chooses to do.3 (I am not holding my breath for an album of Dylan opera excerpts, but I know better than to make any predictions at this point!)
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- The World of Bob Dylan , pp. 134 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021