![]() ![]() ![]() He was nominated for a Grammy for his liner notes to Dylan's 2004 The Bootleg Series, Vol. One-Breath Author BioĪ man with a career anyone can envy, Wilentz holds an endowed history professorship at Princeton, writes for The Daily Beast, and is a contributing editor at The New Republic. The book has already received several reviews and was excerpted on The New Yorker's Web site. Take a recently hot artist-Dylan has in recent years churned out several acclaimed records, been the subject of a psychedelic pseudo biopic, and hosted a satellite radio show-and add an acclaimed author, and you're bound to get some attention. Enter Wilentz with a more scholarly approach and reasonable scope. What's the Big Deal?Īlthough there's been a recent flourishing of Dylan literature, far too many of the book-length studies have been flawed- obsessive, neurotically detailed "Dylanology" that misses the forest for the twigs. Seasoned Bob Dylan watcher and well-regarded Princeton historian Sean Wilentz examines the singer-songwriter's relationship with, and especially his borrowings from, the American musical and cultural past, assessing Dylan's role as both a continuation of the folk tradition and an innovator who subverts it. ![]()
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