At sixty years old, Bob Dylan is still singing the songs which for forty years have made him one of the most preeminent voices of our time. In this revised and much expanded edition of Stephen Scobie's landmark study of Dylan's work, the author covers all the stages of a remarkable career: from his incandescent impact on the mid-1960s, when Dylan revolutionized folk and popular music, to his later reinvention of himself as a traveling performer-the old blues musician whose work may no longer be fashionable but is still intensely relevant and rewarding. The 1991 edition of Alias Bob Dylan was hailed as a definitive study. The present volume is greatly revised, expanded and updated.
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Governor General's Award Winning author. Renowned lecturer in Canada, the United States and England on Bob Dylan's music.
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Stephen Scobie is in all probability the only Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada who attended six Bob Dylan concerts in 1998! When he's not attending concerts, he teaches literature at the University of Victoria. As a poet, he has published over 20 books and received the Governor General's Award in 1980 for McAlmon's Chinese Opera. His other books include The Ballad of Isabel Gunn, Gospel, Taking the Gate, and Forget My Name.
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A Thrillingly Intelligent Analysis,
This review is from: Alias Bob Dylan: Revisited (Non Fiction) (Paperback)
I've read the first version of this book (Alias Bob Dylan) twice over the years. This version is a major revision of the first book with only some overlap. It would be great if the two versions were republished in a single book integrating the text of both. As it is, I'd recommend you read both versions.
Scobie is an admitted fan but this does not seem to impair his objectivity, particularly since he goes far deeper than the "is this album or song better than that one" type of criticism that often makes the work of lesser music critics fairly superficial. "Alias: Revisited" is not only one of the best analyses of Dylan's art, easily surpassing higher profile works like Michael Gray's "Song and Dance Man" or even Paul Williams' excellent "Performing Artist" series, but also one of the best works of literary criticism I've come across. Scobie is an academic and the way he draws on the ideas of Derrida make the philosopher's work surprisingly accessible. I found one of the major chapters, an analysis of the text of "Visions of Johanna" absolutely thrilling. This is what literary criticism should be!
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Buy This One Only,
This review is from: Alias Bob Dylan: Revisited (Non Fiction) (Paperback)
Contrary to the review below, this book, and Scobie's first book (Alias: Bob Dylan) are not 'complimentary'. As far as I can tell, the first book is reprinted in its entirety in Alias: Bob Dylan Revisited. The second book does contains a substantial amount of new and interesting material, so if you're going to get one of them, I'd highly recommend the second book.
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