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"Among those who write regularly about Dylan, Wilentzpossesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance, and lucidity,and for that he should be celebrated andtreasured....Wilentz is very, very good on the actualmusic. In fact, the centerpiece of his book is a vivid lookat the 'Blonde on Blonde' sessions, during which the musiciansteased and groped their way toward the album's 'thin, wild mercurysound,' in Dylan's famous de*ion."—Bruce Handy in TheNew York Times Book Review

"In this often revelatory new study, Wilentzlocates Dylan's work in the context of some surprisinginfluences....The greatest gift for Dylan fans, however, isWilentz's detailed account of the making of 1966's 'Blonde onBlonde'....Unless Dylan himself writes about it in the fabledChronicles: Volume Two, this is the definitive word onthe creation of his greatest album."—Andy Green inRolling Stone

"Bob Dylan in America, a new biography of thesinger-songwriter by distinguished cultural [and] politicalhistorian Sean Wilentz, gives an enjoyably thorough,convincing explanation of why Dylan's new music has gone onfinding new audiences ever since he burst upon the New York folkscene of the early 1960s, fresh from the iron range of northernMinnesorta and ferociously ambitious for his art. It's anextraordinary, resonant intersection of subject andbiographer....Where Wilentz excels is in teasing out theorigins of Dylan's artistic impulses, the context in which theyarose and flowered, the multiple sources of his art."—Tim Rutten inThe Los Angeles Times

"Among those who write regularly about Dylan, Wilentz
possesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance, and lucidity,
and for that he should be celebrated and
treasured....Wilentz is very, very good on the actual
music.  In fact, the centerpiece of his book is a vivid look
at the 'Blonde on Blonde' sessions, during which the musicians
teased and groped their way toward the album's 'thin, wild mercury
sound,' in Dylan's famous de*ion."—Bruce Handy in The
New York Times Book Review 
 "In this often revelatory new study, Wilentz
locates Dylan's work in the context of some surprising
influences....The greatest gift for Dylan fans, however, is
Wilentz's detailed account of the making of 1966's 'Blonde on
Blonde'....Unless Dylan himself writes about it in the fabled
Chronicles: Volume Two, this is the definitive word on
the creation of his greatest album."—Andy Green in
Rolling Stone 
 
"Bob Dylan in America, a new biography of the
singer-songwriter by distinguished cultural [and] political
historian Sean Wilentz, gives an enjoyably thorough,
convincing explanation of why Dylan's new music has gone on
finding new audiences ever since he burst upon the New York folk
scene of the early 1960s, fresh from the iron range of northern
Minnesorta and ferociously ambitious for his art. It's an
extraordinary, resonant intersection of subject and
biographer....Where Wilentz excels is in teasing out the
origins of Dylan's artistic impulses, the context in which they
arose and flowered, the multiple sources of his art."—Tim Rutten in
The Los Angeles Times 
 
"Another book about Bob Dylan!  Is there any more to be
said?  The answer is, of course, yes, and who better to say
it than Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor of American
history?...What this book finally does -- this is me, not
Wilentz -- is establish Dylan as the 20th century's Walt
Whitman.  Like Whitman he sings the songs of America in the
conviction that they can be said in no other way.  And, like
Whitman, he commits himself to travelling the roads of America,
looking and remembering.  From the shelves full of Dylan books
this and one other -- Christopher Ricks's Dylan's Visions of
Sin -- are the ones to read.  This is also one to
look at: the pictures are cunningly well chosen."—Bryan
Appleyard in The Sunday Times (UK) 
"Like many a quirkily brilliant music critic...Mr. Wilentz
chooses pet aspects of his subject's career and then invests them
with the requisite importance....Mr. Wilentz's vast knowledge of
Dylan performances touchingly conveys his nearly lifelong reverence
for his subject."—Janet Maslin in The New York
Times 
 
 
 
 
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BOB
DYLAN IN AMERICA 
 
"A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in
American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean
Wilentz’ Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising
as listening to a great Dylan song." 
—Martin Scorsese 
 
"All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the
appearance of Dylan’s music are fascinating, particularly at the
outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the
thinking is strong – the book is dense and strong everywhere you
look." 
—Philip Roth 
 
"Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony ‘encyclopedia’
compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he
chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh
words founded in hardcore, intelligent research." 
—Al Kooper 
 "This should have been impossible. Writing about Bob
Dylan's music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of
American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric,
part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes,
as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan's music by
reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual
contours. This isn't Cliff Notes or footnotes or any kind of
academic exercise. It's not a critic chinning on the high bar. It's
one artist meeting another, kickstarting a dazzling
conversation." 
—Jay Cocks, screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE
GANGS OF NEW YORK 
 
"Sean Wilentz is one of the few great American historians. His
political and social histories of American Democracy are masterful
and magisterial. In this work, he turns his attention to the
artistic genius of Bob Dylan – and the result is a masterpiece of
cultural history that tells us much about who we have been and who
we are." 
—Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the
Center for African American Studies at Princeton University 
 
"Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylan’s half-century of work
in new ways. Combining a scholar’s depth with a sense of mischief
appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in
famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylan’s less familiar
music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylan’s
canon that most move him, Wilentz gets 
straight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was
nothing new to say about Bob Dylan’s impact on America, this book
will make you think twice." 
—Bill Flanagan, author of A&R and EVENING’S EMPIRE and
Editorial Director, MTV Networks. 
  
"Sean Wilentz’s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural
history of popular music in America. He loves the music and he
loves America, but his loves do not blind him, they open his eyes.
In Wilentz’s erudite and lively account, Dylan’s music, and folk
music, and rock music, are all indelibly woven into the whole story
of an entire country. This book is chocked with new contexts for
old pleasures. There are surprises and illuminations on almost
every page. A great historian has written a history of the culture
that formed him. Like Dylan, Wilentz is a deep and probing American
voice. Bob Dylan’s America is Bob Dylan’s good luck, and ours. It
is an extraordinary affirmation of singing and strumming and
feeling and learning and believing." 
—Leon Wieseltier

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内容简介

One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, oneof the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, stillsurprises and moves us after all these years.
Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov??ered themusic of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a centurylater, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminentAmerican historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in partfrom Wilentz’s essays as “historian in residence” of Dylan’sofficial website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact,interpretation, and affinity—a book that, much like its subject,shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.

One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one
of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still
surprises and moves us after all these years.
Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov??ered the
music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century
later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent
American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part
from Wilentz’s essays as “historian in residence” of Dylan’s
official website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact,
interpretation, and affinity—a book that, much like its subject,
shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.
Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book
follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and
literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentz’s approach
places Dylan’s music in the context of its time, including the
early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and
offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a
song??writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had
unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare
photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell
Dylan’s story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde
with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.
Bob Dylan in America—groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally
absorbing—is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly
met.

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作者简介

SEAN WILENTZ is Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton University. He is the author of The Rise of American Democracy, which received the coveted Bancroft Prize, and, most recently, The Age of Reagan. He has also received a Deems Taylor Award for musical com?mentary and a Grammy nomination for his liner notes to Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan, Live 1964: The Concert at Philharmonic Hall.

目　　录

Introduction
PART I: BEFORE
PART II: EARLY
PART II1' LATER
PART IV: INTERLUDE
PART V: RECENT
Acknowledgments
Selected Readings, Notes, and Discography
Illustration Credits
Index

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