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One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one

of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still

surprises and moves us after all these years.

Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov??ered the

music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century

later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent

American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part

from Wilentz’s essays as “historian in residence” of Dylan’s

official website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact,

interpretation, and affinity—a book that, much like its subject,

shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.

Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book

follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and

literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentz’s approach

places Dylan’s music in the context of its time, including the

early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and

offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a

song??writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had

unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare

photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell

Dylan’s story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde

with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.

Bob Dylan in America—groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally

absorbing—is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly

met.

Introduction

PART I: BEFORE

PART II: EARLY

PART  II1'  LATER

PART IV: INTERLUDE

PART V: RECENT

Acknowledgments

Selected Readings, Notes, and Discography

Illustration Credits

Index

SEAN WILENTZ is Sidney and Ruth Lapidus

Professor in the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton

University. He is the author of The Rise of American

Democracy, which received the coveted Bancroft Prize, and, most

recently, The Age of Reagan. He has also received a Deems

Taylor Award for musical com?mentary and a Grammy nomination for

his liner notes to Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan, Live 1964:

The Concert at Philharmonic Hall.

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"Among those who write regularly about Dylan, Wilentz

possesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance, and lucidity,

and for that he should be celebrated and

treasured....Wilentz is very, very good on the actual

music.  In fact, the centerpiece of his book is a vivid look

at the 'Blonde on Blonde' sessions, during which the musicians

teased and groped their way toward the album's 'thin, wild mercury

sound,' in Dylan's famous de*ion."—Bruce Handy in The

New York Times Book Review

"In this often revelatory new study, Wilentz

locates Dylan's work in the context of some surprising

influences....The greatest gift for Dylan fans, however, is

Wilentz's detailed account of the making of 1966's 'Blonde on

Blonde'....Unless Dylan himself writes about it in the fabled

Chronicles: Volume Two, this is the definitive word on

the creation of his greatest album."—Andy Green in

Rolling Stone

"Bob Dylan in America, a new biography of the

singer-songwriter by distinguished cultural [and] political

historian Sean Wilentz, gives an enjoyably thorough,

convincing explanation of why Dylan's new music has gone on

finding new audiences ever since he burst upon the New York folk

scene of the early 1960s, fresh from the iron range of northern

Minnesorta and ferociously ambitious for his art. It's an

extraordinary, resonant intersection of subject and

biographer....Where Wilentz excels is in teasing out the

origins of Dylan's artistic impulses, the context in which they

arose and flowered, the multiple sources of his art."—Tim Rutten in

The Los Angeles Times

"Another book about Bob Dylan!  Is there any more to be

said?  The answer is, of course, yes, and who better to say

it than Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor of American

history?...What this book finally does -- this is me, not

Wilentz -- is establish Dylan as the 20th century's Walt

Whitman.  Like Whitman he sings the songs of America in the

conviction that they can be said in no other way.  And, like

Whitman, he commits himself to travelling the roads of America,

looking and remembering.  From the shelves full of Dylan books

this and one other -- Christopher Ricks's Dylan's Visions of

Sin -- are the ones to read.  This is also one to

look at: the pictures are cunningly well chosen."—Bryan

Appleyard in The Sunday Times (UK)

"Like many a quirkily brilliant music critic...Mr. Wilentz

chooses pet aspects of his subject's career and then invests them

with the requisite importance....Mr. Wilentz's vast knowledge of

Dylan performances touchingly conveys his nearly lifelong reverence

for his subject."—Janet Maslin in The New York

Times

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BOB

DYLAN IN AMERICA

"A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in

American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean

Wilentz’ Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising

as listening to a great Dylan song."

—Martin Scorsese

"All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the

appearance of Dylan’s music are fascinating, particularly at the

outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the

thinking is strong – the book is dense and strong everywhere you

look."

—Philip Roth

"Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony ‘encyclopedia’

compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he

chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh

words founded in hardcore, intelligent research."

—Al Kooper

"This should have been impossible. Writing about Bob

Dylan's music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of

American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric,

part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes,

as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan's music by

reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual

contours. This isn't Cliff Notes or footnotes or any kind of

academic exercise. It's not a critic chinning on the high bar. It's

one artist meeting another, kickstarting a dazzling

conversation."

—Jay Cocks, screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE

GANGS OF NEW YORK

"Sean Wilentz is one of the few great American historians. His

political and social histories of American Democracy are masterful

and magisterial. In this work, he turns his attention to the

artistic genius of Bob Dylan – and the result is a masterpiece of

cultural history that tells us much about who we have been and who

we are."

—Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the

Center for African American Studies at Princeton University

"Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylan’s half-century of work

in new ways. Combining a scholar’s depth with a sense of mischief

appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in

famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylan’s less familiar

music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylan’s

canon that most move him, Wilentz gets

straight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was

nothing new to say about Bob Dylan’s impact on America, this book

will make you think twice."

—Bill Flanagan, author of A&R and EVENING’S EMPIRE and

Editorial Director, MTV Networks.

"Sean Wilentz’s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural

history of popular music in America. He loves the music and he

loves America, but his loves do not blind him, they open his eyes.

In Wilentz’s erudite and lively account, Dylan’s music, and folk

music, and rock music, are all indelibly woven into the whole story

of an entire country. This book is chocked with new contexts for

old pleasures. There are surprises and illuminations on almost

every page. A great historian has written a history of the culture

that formed him. Like Dylan, Wilentz is a deep and probing American

voice. Bob Dylan’s America is Bob Dylan’s good luck, and ours. It

is an extraordinary affirmation of singing and strumming and

feeling and learning and believing."

—Leon Wieseltier

书籍介绍

One of America's finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country's greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.

Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan's work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentz's essays as" historian in residence" of Dylan's official website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinity—a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.

Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentz's approach places Dylan's music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a song­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylan's story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.

Bob Dylan in America—groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbing—is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.