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(More customer reviews)I AM TOTALLY CONFUSED ON HOW TO RATE THIS BOOK.. I OWN OVER 70 BOOKS ON DYLAN. & WITH A LIST PRICE OF $75.00 I EXPECTED IT TO BE INCREDIBLY GOOD AND HUGE IN SIZE. 500 PAGES? NOPE IT IS 178 PAGES, YES I KNOW THERE IS MORE TO THE BOOK THEN JUST THE SIZE. BUT THAT IS A LOT A MONEY FOR JUST A LITTLE INFORMATION. BUT I TRULY ENJOYED THE BOOK.

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In this exciting new work, David Boucher and Gary Browning explore Bob Dylan's radical and changing engagement with the "political." The contributions deal with various aspects and periods of Dylan's career, including the early protest ballads, the artistic high-point of his mid-sixties electric period in which his songs question the very notion of ordered collective politics, and present alternative disturbing images of a counter-reality. Finally the book explores the more personal and religious songs on issues of identity, alienation and ethical striving. Whereas in the early protest songs the diagnosis and prognosis did not always give rise to answers, the later religious analyses of the world gone wrong appeared to generate a very clear and simple remedy in Jesus.

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