Dylan.FM S02.10 - Bob Dylan and the Literary Tradition (Song & Dance Man - Vol.1 Ch.2)
Our series going inside the book Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan with author Michael Gray continues. Check the archives for other episodes.
Episode released: July 7th on all Podcast Platforms.
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It’s rather incredible that Bob Dylan won the Nobel prize in literature for his songwriting. Just imagine how good a book would have to be to land you in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Of course the prize instigated a lot of talk about Dylan’s relationship with Literature, and Dylan himself took up the subject in his Nobel Lecture. But the first time Bob Dylan and Great Literature were linked was likely way back in the early 1970’s when Michael Gray first released Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan.
As Gray told us, the driver for the book was his belief that some of Dylan’s long lyrics could ‘bear the scrutiny’ of analysis he was being trained to apply to literature. But Song and Dance Man not only treats Dylan’s work like literature…