The Political Art of Bob Dylan

In this exciting new work David Boucher and Gary Browning explore Bob Dylansradical and changing engagement with the political. The contributions dealwith vario... » 

In this exciting new work David Boucher and Gary Browning explore Bob Dylansradical and changing engagement with the political. The contributions dealwith various aspects and periods of Dylans career including the early protestballads the artistic highpoint of his midsixties electric period in whichhis songs question the very notion of ordered collective politics and presentalternative disturbing images of a counterreality. Finally the book exploresthe more personal and religious songs on issues of identity alienation andethical striving. Whereas in the early protest songs the diagnosis andprognosis did not always give rise to answers the later religious analyses ofthe world gone wrong appeared to generate a very clear and simple remedy inJesus. «