Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan And the 1960s
by Mike Marqusee
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Author: Mike MarquseeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-04
ISBN: 1583226869
Number of pages: 376
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Book Review: Razor-Sharp Prose
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is arresting in its intelligence and exceptional prose. It is a must-read book about Dylan's political development. Marquesee is a careful listener and has grasped the zeitgeist of the age.
Marquesee clearly sympathizes with Dylan's use of song as a political weapon, and he explains with great zeal and fervor how Dylan wielded that weapon. I think he misses an emerging spiritual consciousness in Dylan's songs, though, by the exclusive focus on the politics.
Still, anyone who wishes to understand the political world in which Dylan sang should read this book for its keen insights and unfailingly precise language.
--Lawrence J. Epstein, author of Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan
Summary of Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan And the 1960s
Bob Dylan?s abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. In Wicked Messenger, acclaimed cultural-political commentator Mike Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of his critique to address the changing political and cultural climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic.Wicked Messenger is also a riveting political history of the United States in the 1960s. Tracing the development of the decade?s political and cultural dissent movements, Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were anticipated in the poetic aesthetic?anarchic, unaccountable, contradictory, punk? of Dylan's mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous.
Dylan?s anguished, self-obsessed, prickly artistic evolution, Marqusee asserts, was a deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing situation. "He can no longer tell the story straight," Marqusee concludes, "because any story told straight is a false one."
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