Bob Dylan is not a poet. He is a singer-songwriter, a performing artist. The unit of his art, as collected and documented by his intended audience, is the live performance. Right now, no existing technological tool can give researchers ready access to his entire corpus of work. Revised from the author's Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley, 1978) and again from its first edition (Indiana UP, 1982), Performed Literature develops a methodology for close analysis of verbal art that is heard, not seen, using as comparative ...
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Bob Dylan is not a poet. He is a singer-songwriter, a performing artist. The unit of his art, as collected and documented by his intended audience, is the live performance. Right now, no existing technological tool can give researchers ready access to his entire corpus of work. Revised from the author's Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley, 1978) and again from its first edition (Indiana UP, 1982), Performed Literature develops a methodology for close analysis of verbal art that is heard, not seen, using as comparative examples 24 performances of 11 songs by Bob Dylan. The second edition adds a preface, two major appendices and one minor one, and a detailed index.
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Add this copy of Performed Literature: Words and Music By Bob Dylan to cart. $18.00, good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Indiana University Press.
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Very Good. First printing, 1982, hardcover, octavo, 239pp., not illustrated. Book VG with mild soil to front board, binding tight, text has a few instances of underlining in pencil. No DJ.
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Good. 6" x 9" Pages clean; binding tight; 5" crease to front cover lower right corner, else moderate wear to covers. 263 pages. Includes the "Dylan Exam" from the University of Wisconsin (Madison).
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition, first printing. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are lightly age toned. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket shows some edgewear and there is a barcode sticker stuck to the spine of the dust jacket. 239pp.
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