Bob Dylan: how the songs work

Introduction : a maker

Containing multitudes : modern folk song and the search for style

Ramblin' boy : "protest" and the art of adaptation

Absolutely modern : electric music and visionary song

Tangled generation : memory, desire, and the poetics of escape

Turn, turn again : a poetry of conversion

"A wisp of startled air" : late style and the politics of citation

Conclusion : frankness : voice and history.