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DYLAN AT 80
It used to go like that, and now it goes like this
Edited by Gary Browning
& Constantine Sandis
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Bob Dylan Mural by Eduard Kobra, Minneapolis 25 August 2017 (from a photograph by Sharon Mollerus,
licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license CC BY 2.0).
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Contents Dedication Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Prologue: In Death You Face Life Gary Browning & Constantine Sandis 1. Dylan and the Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive
David Boucher 2. Brief Encounter, 1962
Sir Stephen Sedley 3. Spectres of Dylan: Hauntology in Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie (1963)
Emma R. Sears 4. The Uses of Illiteracy: The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Ray Monk 5. Bob Dylan and the Story of Black America from 1865-1965: Theology? Aesthetics?
Culture? Alexander Douglas
6. Dylan and the Political: Then and Now Gary Browning
7. Dylan’s Stratocaster
Garry L. Hagberg 8. Pledging My Time
Maximilian de Gaynesford 9. Keepin’ On: Bob Dylan’s Path Forward
Nicholas Birns 10. Beyond Communication: Changing Of The Guards as a ‘non-coalescent’ artwork
Sophie Grace Chappell 11. ‘What More Can I tell you? I Sleep with Life and Death in the Same Bed’- Ineffability,
Memory, and Dylan’s ‘Religious’ Thought. Anupama M. Ranawana
12. Apocalypse Soon
K G Miles
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13. Have Times Changed?:A Corpus Comparison Between 20th and 21st Century Dylan Jean-Charles Khalifa
14. Turning Back the Clock: Bob Dylan’s Modern Times
Lucas Hare 15. A Voice Without Restraint: Singing Smooth and Rowdy Ways
Mick Gold 16. Bob Dylan is Giving Himself To the Muse
Laura Tenschert 17. Dylan’s Own Version of Us
Constantine Sandis 18. A Pirate Looks At Eighty
Anne Margaret Daniel 19. The Troubadour as Teacher
Tim Shorrock 20. I Believe In You
Amy Rigby 21. The Bridge at Midnight
Galen Strawson 22. Measuring Out My Life in Bob Dylan
Robyn Hitchcock 23. I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You: Bob Dylan Fandom in the Pandemic Era
Emma Swift 24. ‘My Bob Dylan Mask’: Bob Dylan and the Art of Artifice
Lucy Boucher
25. The Man with No Name Jessica Hundley
26. Tangled Up In Blue: Dylan And Love
Barb Jungr 27. Only Change
Harrison Hewitt 28. Getting There
Keith Frankish 29. ‘Cold Irons Bound’: Bob Dylan, Sculpture and Surreality
Natalie Ferris
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30. Writing Hard: The Poetics of Candour in Dylan and Shakespeare
Katharine A. Craik
31. ‘Unselfing in Bob Dylan and Iris Murdoch’ Fleur Jongepier
32. The Rockstar of Painting and the Picasso of Rock
Ray Foulk 33. ‘I know the score’: Musical Echoes in Dylan’s Live Performances
Roger Dalrymple 34. ‘Furnish Me with Tape’: The Always Evolving Way We Listen to Live Dylan
James Adams 35. The Finishing End?
Michael Gray
Epilogue: Restful Farewell Lou Majaw