Bob Dylan, oral cultures, and the meaning of history Portelli, Alessandro 1942- creator text nyu 2022 monographic eng

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192 pages ; 21 cm "Hard Rain is an exploration of how oral culture and the ballad tradition shaped Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan's 1962 classic "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall." The song was written at the apex of the folk music revival and harkens back to the British traditional ballad "Lord Randal" and the 17th-century Italian ballad "Il testemento dell'avvelenato." Its theme is relevant to the post-nuclear nightmares and youth movements of the 1960s, prefiguring contemporary concerns about environmental crisis, racism, and mass migrations. Alessandro Portelli demonstrates how Dylan was able to use the folk tradition of the ballad combined with a modern sensibility to creatively question the meaning and direction of history. Will the future bring liberation or disaster? It is up to us"-- Introduction. Memory, Voice, and the Global Bob Dylan -- Songs of Innocence and Experience -- The text and the voice -- Talking Atomic Blues -- Which way history? -- Appendix. History's lessons unlearned -- Appendix 2. Lyrics. Alessandro Portelli. Includes index. Dylan, Bob 1941- Criticism and interpretation Dylan, Bob 1941- Crítica e interpretación Dylan, Bob 1941- Folk songs History and criticism Canciones folclóricas Historia y crítica Ballads History and criticism Baladas Historia y crítica Music and history Música Historia y crítica ML 420 P843h 2022 782.42164092 Portelli, Alessandro. New York City : Columbia University Press, 2022 (DLC) 2021040205 9780231205931 (paperback) 0231556233 (paperback) 2021040204 DLC 210816 20260507123000.0 22178034 eng