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Alias Bob Dylan

revisited

by (author) Stephen Scobie

Publisher
Red Deer Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2003
Category
Composers & Musicians
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889952270
    Publish Date
    Dec 2003
    List Price
    $12.95

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Re-Discover the most influential voice of our lifetime

Bob Dylan is still singing the songs which for decades have made him the most preeminent voices of our time. In this revised and much expanded edition of Stephen Scobie's landmark study of Dylan's work, the author covers all the stages of a remarkable career: from his incandescent impact on the mid-1960s, when Dylan revolutionized folk and popular music, to his later reinvention of himself as a traveling performer. Dylan work is intensely relevant and rewarding. Rediscover Dylan with Stephen Scobie's outstanding portrait of this Noble Laureate.

The 1991 edition of Alias Bob Dylan was hailed as a definitive study. The present volume is greatly revised, expanded and updated.

About the author

Stephen Scobie
Born in Scotland, Stephen Scobie is a critic and a poet who won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1980 and the Prix Gabrielle Roy for Canadian Criticism in 1986. A founding editor of Longspoon Press, his literary criticism includes books on bpNichol, Leonard Cohen, Sheila Watson and Bob Dylan. His first book of poetry, Stone Poems, was published by Talonbooks in 1974. His critical work bpNichol: What History Teaches, published in 1984 is part of the Talonbooks New Canadian Criticism Series, edited by Frank Davey.

Frank Davey
Born in Vancouver, Frank Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. In addition, he co-founded the world’s first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent in 1984. Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it, and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing society?racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economic?that drive this play.

Stephen Scobie's profile page

Editorial Reviews

Reviews for the original Alias Bob Dylan:

"Scobie effectively does what Dylan does—he weds high art and popular culture, and leaves some blood on the tracks."
The Toronto Star

"With a poet's eye and voice, Scobie reflects on the singer's rich language and music, his learned perceptions sparking epiphanies of understanding."
Victoria Times Colonist

"Post-modernist criticism finally reaches Bob Dylan via this entertaining, often elinghtening tome."
Record Collector (England)

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