Dylan at 80

It used to go like that, and now it goes like this

By: Constantine Sandis (Editor), Gary Browning (Editor)

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Paperback | 5 January 2021

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240 Pages

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2021 marks Bob Dylan''s 80th birthday and his 60th year in the music world. It invites us to look back on his career and the multitudes that it contains. Is he a song and dance man? A political hero? A protest singer? A self-portrait artist who has yet to paint his masterpiece? Is he Shakespeare in the alley? The greatest living exponent of American music? An ironsmith? Internet radio DJ? Poet (who knows it)? Is he a spiritual and religious parking meter? Judas? The voice of a generation or a false prophet, jokerman, and thief? Dylan is all these and none.

The essays in this book explore the Nobel laureate''s masks, collectively reflecting upon their meaning through time, change, movement, and age. They are written by wonderful and diverse set of contributors, all here for his 80th birthday bash: celebrated Dylanologists like Michael Gray and Laura Tenschert; recording artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Barb Jungr, Amy Rigby, and Emma Swift; and ''the professorsâ who all like his looks: David Boucher, Anne Margaret Daniel, Ray Monk, Galen Strawson, and more. Read it on your toaster!

Industry Reviews

"Dylan at 80 often reflects many facets of the (Zimmer)man and deserves to find a place on his fans' bookshelves." -- Michael Heatley * Record Collector *
"...this is not the ordinary Bob Dylan book with tiresome retellings of his hobo youth, the folk singer turned electric... and so on. Instead, it is a book with interesting and eye-opening essays by people from a wide range of professions... The book offers an amazing collection of essays - brilliantly assembled by the editors... [It] spreads like wildfire in all directions, and it is a very satisfying read... It will definitely have its place in my collection of must-have books." -- Kent Wennman * Iris Murdoch Review *

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