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Wicked Messenger

Bob Dylan and the 1960s Chimes of Freedom

ISBN-13: 9781583226865

Author(s): Mike Marqusee

Subjects: 6PB, 6RF, AVGP, AVLP, AVPP

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press

Publication Date: 03-11-2005

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£14.99

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About the book

Bob Dylan's abrupt abandonment of overtly political song writing 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. Dylan's anguished, self-obsessed, prickly artistic evolution, Marqusee asserts, was a deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing situation.

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