Dimensions
169 x 244 x 44mm
This edition of Song & Dance Man III runs to over 800 pages and provides a comprehensive study of the work of an artist whose writing crosses many traditional boundaries, including:
- fusion of the poetic power of folk balladry with electric music
- an astonishing use of blues lyric poetry
- a surprising use of nursery rhyme
- prolific use of the King James Bible, and
- a blend of radical creativity and conservative tendencies that makes for 40 years' worth of multi-layered work which has been widely influential and which can still bear the weight of critical scrutiny
Bob Dylan is also intriguing for his vacillation between periods of enormous international popularity and periods of being dismissed as a mere holdover from the 1960s. Despite his wavering popularity, Dylan has refused to become "showbiz" and has drawn in new listeners in generational wave after wave.
Song & Dance Man III is the definitive book on Dylan's life work. This established classic is crammed full of fresh material and analysis that offers major new studies of Dylan's entire oeuvre, and the ever-popular album-by-album guide has also been extensively updated and extended.
