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   • bioText: Bob Dylan has released thirty-nine studio albums, which collectively have sold over 125 million copies around the world. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. His memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list.
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The Philosophy of Modern Song

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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 his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. 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.

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     Starred review from November 18, 2022
     

     Dylan (Chronicles, Vol. 1) won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature for creating new poetic expressions within the American song tradition, and he extends these expressions into this new collection of 60 essays on the nature of popular music. One origin for this project may be World Gone Wrong, Dylan's 1993 album of folk song covers with self-penned liner notes that described each song in great detail. Then, as now, the writing is authoritative and from a lifetime of memories and experiences that have informed his perspective and opinions, not as a professional historian or reporter. It is this unique outlook that colors every opinion and fact throughout the book. Consequently, the reader's interest in Dylan's music is likely to match their attraction to Dylan's opinions on music. VERDICT This is a fascinating and personalized journey through 20th-century popular music that's guided by one of its luminaries.--Gregory Stall

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     November 1, 2022
     Nobel laureate Bob Dylan is known for his eclectic tastes as well as his deep, encyclopedic knowledge of popular music. He puts that expertise to the test in this widely entertaining romp through popular-music history. Even if readers aren't familiar with a song under discussion, they will still enjoy and appreciate his take on it. Starting with Bobby Bare's "Detroit City" and ending with Dion & the Belmonts' "Where or When," Dylan runs through 66 songs, explaining why, in his opinion, these particular compositions work. Throughout, he shares his views on songwriting. "Knowing a singer's life story doesn't particularly help your understanding of a song," he offers. ""It's what a song makes you feel about your own life that's important." The book is also a plaint against conformity as he praises songs that stand out for their originality, individuality, and inventiveness. Dylan's prose is often as vivid as his own lyrics, such as when he discusses Johnny Paycheck's "Old Violin." Referring to the country singer's short stature, he notes that, "Like a lot of small men, he was wrapped tighter than the inside of a golf ball and hit just about as often." Many of the songs here, as with perhaps most songs, were written with the ear in mind. An important distinction, Dylan believes. What's more, he compares what happens between the marriage of words and music to alchemy, "chemistry's wilder, less disciplined precursor."" Illustrated with a rich collection of images ranging from vintage photos and movie stills to album and pulp-fiction covers, this quirky book is not only full of surprises but also a wonderful consideration of contemporary songs by the modern era's master songwriter.

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     Starred review from January 9, 2023
     Nobel-winning songwriter Dylan (Chronicles: Volume One) offers a marvelous survey of the recordings he loves. Across 66 chapters—each delving into a song recorded between 1924 and 2004—Dylan considers what a particular number might mean to listeners of many stripes: “Knowing a singer’s life story doesn’t particularly help your understanding of a song,” he writes. “It’s what a song makes you feel about your own life that’s important.” The passage on Carl Perkins’s “Blue Suede Shoes” pulls this off brilliantly, drawing a line from 1950s rockabilly through the past four decades of hip-hop and giving voice to the aggression required to protect one’s “point of pride”: “If you want to live and know how to live, you’ll stay off my shoes.” Chronicles: Volume Two this is not, but there’s plenty of unfiltered Dylan; his entry on Johnnie Taylor’s “Cheaper to Keep Her” swerves into a riotous screed on the divorce litigation industry, while his ode to the Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’ ” praises Bob Weir’s performance in a way that fans might describe Dylan himself: “The guy singing the song acts and talks like who he is, and not the way others would want him to talk and act.” There’s no end to the joy of joining this elusive and voracious artist in musical appreciation. Agent: Andrew Wylie, Wiley Agency.

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     Starred review from December 1, 2022
     The iconic singer/songwriter reflects on a lifetime of listening to music. Nostalgia abounds in Bob Dylan's eclectic and eccentric collection of impressive musical appreciations. Examining 66 songs across numerous genres, going back to Stephen Foster's "Nelly Was a Lady" (1849), the author offers an extensive hodgepodge of illustrations and photographs alongside rich, image-laden, impressionistic prose. There is no introduction or foreword. Instead, Dylan dives right in with "Detroit City," Bobby Blare's 1963 single: "What is it about lapsing into narration in a song that makes you think the singer is suddenly revealing the truth?" Throughout the text, the author is consistently engaging and often provocative in his explorations. Regarding "Witchy Woman" by the Eagles, he writes, "The lips of her cunt are a steel trap, and she covers you with cow shit--a real killer-diller and you regard her with suspicion and fear, rightly so. Homely enough to stop a clock, she's no pussycat." Deconstructing Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard's "Pancho and Lefty," Dylan describes songwriting as "editing--distilling thought down to essentials." We can see the author's mind working, reminiscing, but there's little autobiography here. Where needed, he tosses in some prodigious music history and biography, and some appreciations read like short stories. Often, Dylan straightforwardly recounts what a specific song is about: "By the time you get to Phoenix it will be morning where she is, and she'll be just getting out of bed." Pete Seeger's "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" is a "remembrance of things past," and Dion and the Belmonts' version of the Rodgers and Hart song "Where or When" is about "reincarnation." Also making appearances are Carl Perkins, Perry Como, The Clash, Roy Orbison, Cher, Rosemary Clooney, Johnny Cash, Judy Garland, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, the Allman Brothers, and the Grateful Dead. Bobby Darin and Willie Nelson appear twice. "A record is so much better when you can believe it." Dylan is clearly a believer, and he will convince readers to follow.

     COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. 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...

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