Bob Dylan - Život v sedmi písních – Greil Marcus (2023)

Living legend of American music and cultural journalism Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through six of his original songs and one traditional folk song. He presents the artist's sixty-year oeuvre and its roots in American folk music and history, while also examining Dylan's enormous influence on the global artistic scene. He does this so thoroughly and knowledgeably that nothing similar can be found in a typical biography. How did the famous folk songs from the beginning of Dylan's career inspire protest visual artists associated with the Black Lives Matter movement? What is the connection between an old ballad about the murder of a Black waitress and the work of avant-garde performer Laurie Anderson? Why did Dylan return to old folk songs in his mature age after fifty and systematically record them for several years? And what does the parade of famous and unknown historical figures and snippets of songs in the track Murder Most Foul signify? Prepare for a fascinating journey through time and space, moving from 1960s New York to a mountain backwater in North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century, then back to the avant-garde electronic scene in the Reagan era or to the Washington Capitol in January 2021, where a fanatical attack is currently underway...