Bob Dylan

The Philosophy of Modern Song offers Bob Dylan's extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He offers us 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....

Bob Dylan's 1983 album Infidels was a departure from his previous works in so many ways - lyrics, music, production and spirit. It is unique amongst Dylan albums, and while songs like Jokerman and I and I are well known, the album is less...

Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has made a global impact. Leading rock and pop critics and music scholars address themes and topics central to Dylan's...

One of the most pivotal albums in the evolution of rock music, few other recordings have had more impact than the 1965 Bob Dylan classic, Bringing It All Back Home. In the mid-sixties, rock music was about to explode into psychedelia, prog and jazz...

The Decades series looks at a specific decade in the life of a band or artist. No period of Bob Dylan’s six-decade career confounds fans more than the 1980s. The singer began the decade with Saved, the second in a trio of explicitly religious...