The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia is one of the most wide-ranging, informed, entertaining, provocative, and compulsively readable books ever written about popular music. It's the culmination of over thirty years of dedicated research and scholarship by Michael Gray.
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The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia is one of the most wide-ranging, informed, entertaining, provocative, and compulsively readable books ever written about popular music. It's the culmination of over thirty years of dedicated research and scholarship by Michael Gray.
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The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia is one of the most wide-ranging, informed, entertaining, provocative, and compulsively readable books ever written about popular music. It's the culmination of over thirty years of dedicated research and scholarship by Michael Gray.Inside these pages, you'll find a world of ideas, facts, and opinions. It's a world in which Baudelaire flows on from the Basement Tapes and A.S. Byatt looks out at the Byrds; in which Far from the Madding Crowd follows Ezekiel and Bob Geldof introduces Jean Genet; and in which Hank and William Carlos Williams stand side by side while J.R.R. Tolkien trails the Titanic. Most of all, of course, it's a world in which everyone and everything interconnects, in endlessly fascinating ways, with one of our greatest living artists: Bob Dylan.
Click here to read an interview with Michael Gray:
"Michael Gray... probably Dylan's single most assiduous critic." - New York Review of Books "Fans of Bob Dylan have a multitude of choices when it comes to biographies and retrospectives, but author Michael Gray outdistances them all with this voluminous collection of all things Dylan. ... Insightful and
entertaining, Gray's tome will broaden appreciation of the artist, his influences and his legacy."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"...has all you need to know, and more" -Richard Corliss, Time "This is no mere catalog of facts, but a work of oceanic immersion. It has wit, opinion, style, and asks to be read, not just consulted." -Village Voice "Deeply impressive...destined to be the most important Dylan book, bar none."-Gerry Smith, The Dylan Daily "Utterly idiosyncratic." -Janet Maslin, New York Times "Amazingly well-researched and surprisingly readable work." -Library Journal (starred review)
"Door-stopping detail." -Toronto Star
"Magnificent...won't just astonish readers with its detail about Dylan's work...contains so many insights and refutes so many myths about the rock 'n' roll era in general that it's
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invaluable as both a reference guide and a personality study."
-Nashville City Paper
"Comprehensive and up-to-date."
-Slate
-Nashville City Paper
"Comprehensive and up-to-date."
-Slate
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Autoren-Porträt von Michael Gray
Michael Gray is recognized as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan and is an expert on rock'n'roll history and the blues, with a special interest in pre-war blues. His massive Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan has been reprinted several times since being published by Continuum in 2000. He lives in Yorkshire, England.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Gray
- 2006, 800 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 18,1 x 26,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Continuum
- ISBN-10: 0826469337
- ISBN-13: 9780826469335
Sprache:
Englisch
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'likely to become the biggest selling Dylan book of all, the Encylopedia majors on its author's unparalleled expertise, his critical judgment and a ready intelligence and authorial finesse. In three quarters of a million words, he paints a massive canvas. Over 730 pages, its daunting breadth of coverage and sheer level of detail is deeply impressive. From today, Michael Gray's new Encyclopedia is destined to be the most important Bob Dylan book, bar none.' The Dylan Daily (website) 'Michael Gray is arguably the pre-eminent Dylan scholar - enviably knowledgeable, scabrously tart and enthusiastically iconoclastic [and his] irreverence is one of the joys of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. It won't be the last word on Dylan but it is easily the most comprehensive. Sunday Herald (Scotland) 'A corker. A great labour of love. It stands comparison with David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Cinema as a sustained piece of entertaining, opinionated, heartfelt and argumentative writing. The book is thronged with life [and] leads you irresistibly from one connection to another. Throughout there is a rich sense of what these people have meant to Dylan - and what he has meant to them, and to all of us who have merely listened and been moved. London Evening Standard
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