Description: Bob Dylan’s abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. In Wicked Messenger, acclaimed cultural-political commentator Mike Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of his critique to address the changing political and cultural climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic.
Wicked Messenger is also a riveting political history of the United States in the 1960s. Tracing the development of the decade’s political and cultural dissent movements, Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were anticipated in the poetic aesthetic—anarchic, unaccountable, contradictory, punk— of Dylan's mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous.
Dylan’s anguished, self-obsessed, prickly artistic evolution, Marqusee asserts, was a deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing situation. He can no longer tell the story straight, Marqusee concludes, because any story told straight is a false one.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Wicked Messenger : Bob Dylan and the 1960s; Chimes of Freedom, Revised and Expanded
Number of Pages: 374 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Composers & Musicians, General, Lyrics
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2005
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 13.7 Oz
Author: Mike Marqusee
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Perfect
