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050 00 $aML420.D98$bM4 1985
100 1 $aMellers, Wilfrid,$d1914-2008.
245 12 $aA darker shade of pale :$ba backdrop to Bob Dylan /$cWilfrid Mellers.
260 0 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1985, c1984.
300 $a255 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., ports. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aDiscography: p. 237-242.
504 $aBibliography: p. 243-244.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Foreword : White, red and black in the American experience -- Part I : The backdrop : From the Appalachians to Nashville -- The word and the body : The legacy of the old world -- The old heritage in the American Grain. The monody of deprivation ; Poor white folk and homophony for worship -- The white euphoria. The monody of innocence ; A therapy of corporeal assent : Music for scraped and plucked strings -- The liquidation of tragedy and guilt. Blue grass music ; Cowboy music and western swing -- The family, the loner and the radio networks. The Carter family, and Jimmie Rodgers, the lonesome cowboy ; Hank Wiliams, Elvis Presley and the road to rock -- Part II : Bob Dylan : Freedom, belief and responsibility -- Grass roots -- Protest and affirmation -- Between vision and nightmare -- The country dream : The private and the public life -- Love and loss, redemption and the myth of the wild west -- Towards rebirth in a legal strert -- Born again -- Dylan as Jewish Amerindian and white negro -- Afterword : Folk song, art and technology.
520 $aWith the Beatles, Bob Dylan is one of the most talented performers to emerge from the sixties. For more than twenty years Dylan has been a spokesman for the young--a representative of a generation and a way of life. While Dylan's originality is his strength, his art has roots in American folk, country and pop music. In this exciting new book, Wilfrid Mellers, author of the acclaimed study of the Beatles, Twilight of the Gods, examines Dylan's musical heritage, from the British folk ballads that influenced his lyrics to the American folk-singers who influence his music. Mellers looks at how Dylan's vocal and instrumental style was affected by such greats as the Carter family, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Elvis Presley and Woody Guthrie. He goes on to consider what Dylan did with this musical legacy, and how he made these musical forms his own. Mellers offers illuminating commentary on virtually every song recorded by Dylan, and shows why his individual contribution has spoken so powerfully to millions of people [Publisher description]
600 10 $aDylan, Bob,$d1941-
650 0 $aPopular music$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aFolk music$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aRock music$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
776 08 $iOnline version:$aMellers, Wilfrid, 1914-2008.$tDarker shade of pale.$dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1985, c1984$w(OCoLC)671566747
776 08 $iOnline version:$aMellers, Wilfrid, 1914-2008.$tDarker shade of pale.$dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1985, ©1984$w(OCoLC)671566747
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