Song & Dance Man III - The Art of Bob Dylan

by Michaell Gray

Probably the last Bob Dylan book to be published this century - and certainly the biggest!
Published by Cassell, London & New York, November 1999 - 944 pages
Hardback ISBN: 0-304-70762-7 Paperback ISBN: 0-304-70588-8

Press Release:

Contents: Preface; Notes On Recording & Release Information; Introduction:
An Album-by-Album Guide To Dylan’s Work; 20 chapters; Bibliography; Index.
The first seven chapters represent the core of the previous edition
(the 1981 second edition), but newly and fully annotated.

These are:
1. Dylan And The Folk Tradition;
2. Dylan And The Literary Tradition;
3. Dylan And Rock Music; 4. Dylan’s Use Of Language: Towards Complexity;
5. Dylan’s Use Of Language: Towards A New Simplicity;
6. Lay Down Your Weary Tune: Drugs And Mysticism;
7. The Coming Of The Slow Train. Plus THIRTEEN new chapters:
8. Well I Investigated All The Books In The Library;
9. Even Post-Structuralists Oughta Have The Pre-War Blues;
10. Closin’ The Book On The Pages And The Text?;
11. Yonder Comes Sin: The Retreat From Evangelism;
12. Every Grain Of Sand;
13. Groom Still Waiting At The Altar?;
14. Jokerman;
15. Bob Dylan, Blind Willie McTell And ‘Blind Willie McTell’;
16. Oh Mercy... The Second Half Of The 1980s;
17. Nursery Rhyme, Fairy Tale And "Under The Red Sky";
18. Good As He’s Been In A World Gone Wrong?;
19. Time Out Of Mind;
20. There Is Only Up Wing An' Down Wing.

Ordering Information:

PUBLISHED IN PAPERBACK AND LIMITED-EDITION DE-LUXE HARDBACK.
PAPERBACK: £29.99 [$50 US surface mail, $60 US airmail]
HARDBACK: 450 COPIES ONLY, WORLDWIDE, £75 [$125 US surface mail, $140 US airmail].
The paperback will be on sale in shops at the end of November but
THE AUTHOR IS THE SOLE SELLER OF THE HARDBACK EDITION IN THE UK &
EUROPE, AND EACH COPY SUPPLIED BY THE AUTHOR IS NUMBERED.
you can order either edition NOW, direct from the author, with no charge for
post & packing to the UK. For the US, prices include post & packing. For
Europe add £3. Send eurocheque, sterling IMO, sterling cheque, postal order,
cash in sterling or US dollars to:
Michael Gray, Kirkbymoorside, York YO62 6AR, England.
Please specify if you would like your copy signed by the author.
Hardback ISBN: 0-304-70762-7 Paperback ISBN: 0-304-70588-8

The paperback edition is also available from My Back Pages

US Customers can purchase the book from the American publisher The Continuum International Publishing Group


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