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The philosophy of modern song

Author

Bob Dylan

Call Number

  • 782.4213 D9969 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

Physical Description

339 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 x 20 cm

Summary

"The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan's unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work's transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement" --

Contents

  • Detroit City : Pump it up : Without a song : Take me from this garden of evil : There stands the glass : Willy the wondering gypsy and me : Tutti frutti : Money honey : My generation : Jesse James : Poor little fool : Pancho and Lefty : The Pretender : Mack the Knife : Whiffenpoof song : You don't know me : Ball of confusion : Poison love : Beyond the sea : On the road again : If you don't know me by now : The little white cloud that cried : El Paso : Nelly was a lady : Cheaper to keep her : I got a woman : CIA Man : On the street where you live : Truckin' : Ruby, are you mad? : Old violin : Volare : London calling : Your cheatin' heart : Blue Bayou : Midnight rider : Blue suede shoes : My prayer : Dirty life and times : Doesn't hurt anymore : Key to the highway : Everybody cryin' mercy : War : Big River : Feel so good : Blue moon : Gypsies, tramps & thieves : Keep my skillet good and greasy : It's all in the game : A certain girl : I've always been crazy : Witchy woman : Big boss man : Long Tall Sally : Old and only in the way : Black Magic Woman : By the time I get to Phoenix : Come on-a my house : Don't take your guns to town : Come rain or come shine : Don't let me be misunderstood : Strangers in the night : Viva Las Vegas : Saturday night at the movies : Waist deep in the Big Muddy : Where or when :

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