The breadth of this consensus renders noteworthy the dearth of analytic strategies available to anyone who sets out to understand the role music might have played in the period’s distinctive movements and events. Dylan’s songs thus helped create the sensibility that would approve the deliberate coming together of personal rebellion and political activism after 1967.įew would disagree with the proposition that music was central to the experience of those who came of age during the 1960s. These innovations provided a framework for exploring the myriad forms of human desire-sensual, spiritual, political-as fundamentally indistinguishable. Further, his experiments with form were undertaken to capture the bedeviling entanglements of love and courtship as he and his peers experienced them in the mid-1960s. In our efforts to understand Bob Dylan’s achievement, scholars have yet to consider seeing him as he saw himself-as a musical craftsperson who created a new kind of song.
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