Refractions of Bob Dylan: Cultural Appropriations of an American Icon - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0719091748 ISBN 13: 9780719091742

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Refractions of Bob Dylan is a multi-disciplinary set of essays revolving around the routes of Bob Dylan's cultural appropriations. There is, of course, a conscious ambivalence in the notion of cultural appropriation in relation to the work of Bob Dylan. A number of the essays in this book investigate how both Dylan's texts and the cultural formation Dylan have been appropriated in culturally and regionally divergent spheres. When the focus is on Dylan appropriated, translated and refigured, the perspective is less on Dylan than on how and for which purposes he has been used, depending on divergent cultural and regional contexts. Some essays look into Dylan's own appropriations and fusions within his work, image or projection, e.g. the accusations of plagiarism in Love and Theft, Chronicles or the paintings of his recent Asia Series. Related to both approaches, some essays are interested in Dylan's strategies to regain a certain degree of autonomy over the signifier Dylan, or to evade appropriations by others.The collection features analyses of appropriations of Bob Dylan in various European countries and multiple cultural traditions and contexts and discusses various artistic transformations of Dylan and his work in film, music and literature.The contributors include a few of the most noted Dylan scholars such as Michael Gray, Stephen Scobie and Clinton Heylin. Some of the essays collected here originate from the Refractions of Bob Dylan conference in Vienna in 2011. Refractions is aimed at scholars and students of American and Cultural Studies and Dylan fans alike.

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L'autore:

Eugen Banauch is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in American Studies at the University of Vienna

Product Description:

Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have informed and productively re/shaped certain images of America from outside and within. Refractions of Bob Dylan collects scholarly essays which thoroughly investigate the routes of Bob Dylan's cultural appropriations. The collection looks at how Dylan has been used and interpreted by others, and how his work has been reworked into cultural expressions in culturally and regionally divergent spaces. Additionally, a number of essays look at what Dylan has appropriated and incorporated in his own work, focusing on questions of plagiarism, tribute, allusion, love and theft. Some of the essays originate from the Refractions of Bob Dylan conference in Vienna (www.dylanvienna.at) which took place around the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan, and included Dylan experts such as Clinton Heylin, Stephen Scobie and Michael Gray.

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• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0719091748
• ISBN 13: 9780719091742
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 228
• Redattore: Banauch Eugen