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Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen : Deaths and Entrances by David Boucher and Lucy Boucher (2021, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional

ISBN-101501345664

ISBN-139781501345661

eBay Product ID (ePID)3038617984

Product Key Features

Book TitleBob Dylan and Leonard Cohen : Deaths and Entrances

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory & Criticism, Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal

Publication Year2021

GenreMusic

AuthorDavid Boucher, Lucy Boucher

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-055211

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsThose researching the course of modern culture will no doubt find the heavily annotated work of use., If you think it's only right and proper that our finest songwriters are treated with the same academic respect as Shakespeare and Milton, then you're in for a fascinating read., A] volume full of information and thought-provoking insight and ideas ... It is a very worthwhile read., "If you think it's only right and proper that our finest songwriters are treated with the same academic respect as Shakespeare and Milton, then you're in for a fascinating read." -- Uncut "Those researching the course of modern culture will no doubt find the heavily annotated work of use." -- Kerry Dexter, Dirty Linen #114 "The dearth of Cohen interpretations makes this book valuable. Recommended." -- Choice

Dewey Decimal811.54

Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. Dying to Get Back Home 2. The Road Back 3. Redemption Men 4. Starting Out: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, The Beat Generation and Dylan Thomas 5. The Masked Crusader: Bob Dylan 6. The Lone Ranger: Leonard Cohen 7. Poetry and Song 8. The Spirit of Duende 9. Mine've Been Like Verlaine's and Rimbaud Conclusion Acknowledgments Index

SynopsisBoth Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The authors argue that both Dylan and Cohen shared early aspirations that mirrored the Beat Generation. They sought to achieve the fame of Dylan Thomas, who proved a bohemian poet could thrive outside the academy, and to live his life of unconditional social irresponsibility. While Dylan's and Cohen's fame fluctuated over the decades, it was sustained by self-consciously adopted personas used to distance themselves from their public selves. This separation of self requires an exploration of the artists' relation to religion as an avenue to find and preserve inner identity. The relationship between their lyrics and poetry is explored in the context of Federico Garc a Lorca's concept of the poetry of inspiration and the emotional depths of 'duende.' Such ideas draw upon the dislocation of the mind and the liberation of the senses that so struck Dylan and Cohen when they first read the poetry and letters of Arthur Rimbaud and Lorca. The authors show that performance and the poetry are integral, and the 'duende, ' or passion, of the delivery, is inseparable from the lyric or poetry, and common to Dylan, Cohen and the Beat Generation., Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen became cultural phenomena in the 1960s as spokesmen for their generation. This book places the writers in the context of the political movements of the time, their religious convictions, the folk revival, the bohemianism of the Beat Generation and the changing cultural and religious patterns that characterized their popularity and ability to adapt by transforming their art. Dylan and Cohen is a political, psychological and artistic profile of these two iconic writers and performers. With reference to both biographical details and lyrics, David Boucher explores their similarities and differences, tracing the development of religious political, and social themes in their work and the ways in which those ideas engaged a new audience. In this completely revised edition, major themes - such as the relationship between poetry and song; the aesthetics of reading a text; the longevity of the performers' careers; and the changing phases of their music - have been rethought in the light of numerous new contexts, including Dylan's Chronicles and Nobel lecture; and the 2016 death of Cohen., Both Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The authors argue that both Dylan and Cohen shared early aspirations that mirrored the Beat Generation. They sought to achieve the fame of Dylan Thomas, who proved a bohemian poet could thrive outside the academy, and to live his life of unconditional social irresponsibility. While Dylan's and Cohen's fame fluctuated over the decades, it was sustained by self-consciously adopted personas used to distance themselves from their public selves. This separation of self requires an exploration of the artists' relation to religion as an avenue to find and preserve inner identity. The relationship between their lyrics and poetry is explored in the context of Federico García Lorca's concept of the poetry of inspiration and the emotional depths of 'duende.' Such ideas draw upon the dislocation of the mind and the liberation of the senses that so struck Dylan and Cohen when they first read the poetry and letters of Arthur Rimbaud and Lorca. The authors show that performance and the poetry are integral, and the 'duende,' or passion, of the delivery, is inseparable from the lyric or poetry, and common to Dylan, Cohen and the Beat Generation.

LC Classification NumberML420.D98B64 2021