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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Chapter 1: Detroit City -- Chapter 2: Pump It Up -- Chapter 3: Without a Song -- Chapter 4: Take Me from This Garden of Evil -- Chapter 5: There Stands the Glass -- Chapter 6: Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me -- Chapter 7: Tutti Frutti -- Chapter 8: Money Honey -- Chapter 9: My Generation -- Chapter 10: Jesse James -- Chapter 11: Poor Little Fool -- Chapter 12: Pancho and Lefty -- Chapter 13: The Pretender -- Chapter 14: Mack the Knife -- Chapter 15: Whiffenpoof Song -- Chapter 16: You Don't Know Me -- Chapter 17: Ball of Confusion -- Chapter 18: Poison Love -- Chapter 19: Beyond the Sea -- Chapter 20: On the Road Again -- Chapter 21: If You Don't Know Me by Now -- Chapter 22: The Little White Cloud That Cried -- Chapter 23: El Paso -- Chapter 24: Nelly Was a Lady -- Chapter 25: Cheaper to Keep Her -- Chapter 26: I Got a Woman -- Chapter 27: CIA Man -- Chapter 28: On the Street Where You Live -- Chapter 29: Truckin' -- Chapter 30: Ruby, Are You Mad? -- Chapter 31: Old Violin -- Chapter 32: Volare -- Chapter 33: London Calling -- Chapter 34: Your Cheatin' Heart -- Chapter 35: Blue Bayou -- Chapter 36: Midnight Rider -- Chapter 37: Blue Suede Shoes -- Chapter 38: My Prayer -- Chapter 39: Dirty Life and Times -- Chapter 40: Doesn't Hurt Anymore -- Chapter 41: Key to the Highway -- Chapter 42: Everybody Cryin' Mercy -- Chapter 43: War -- Chapter 44: Big River -- Chapter 45: Feel So Good -- Chapter 46: Blue Moon -- Chapter 47: Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves -- Chapter 48: Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy -- Chapter 49: It's All in the Game -- Chapter 50: A Certain Girl -- Chapter 51: I've Always Been Crazy -- Chapter 52: Witchy Woman -- Chapter 53: Big Boss Man -- Chapter 54: Long Tall Sally -- Chapter 55: Old and Only in the Way -- Chapter 56: Black Magic Woman -- Chapter 57: By the Time I Get to Phoenix -- Chapter 58: Come On-a My House -- Chapter 59: Don't Take Your Guns to Town -- Chapter 60: Come Rain or Come Shine -- Chapter 61: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood -- Chapter 62: Strangers in the Night -- Chapter 63: Viva Las Vegas -- Chapter 64: Saturday Night at the Movies -- Chapter 65: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy -- Chapter 66: Where or When -- About the Author -- Credits -- Copyright. |
| Summary |
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylans first book of new writing since 2004s Chronicles: Volume Oneand since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylans unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the works transcendence. |
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Popular music -- History and criticism.
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Popular music -- Writing and publishing.
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Popular music.
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Essays.
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| ISBN |
9781451648706
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1451648707
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