Or- looking at it differently one might see him as exposing others to the beauty and richness of the past, the historical significance of folk, blues, roots music rather than depriving anyone. Who is being deprived when the structures/melodies he has adapted were not under copyright law?
In a time when modern rock and pop music has become merely a banal"product" and bereft of anything approaching art- (with some exceptions of course)I'm certainly grateful to dylan for exposing me/us to so much of the bedrock of American music as well as the genuine "folk" melodies from around the world that so much of the early folk/rock/blues was built on.
I'm just as grateful to him for bringing exposure to literature as well.
There is a discipline, called "literary allusion" used by writers since the beginning- inspired by, building on or referencing the work and ideas of others. This discipline is studied in Universities and countless books have been published by both academics and "laymen" identifying and chronicling this art form.
And now Dylan is being studied the same way.
Deservedly so.
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ha!
very good.
irony(?) worthy of Bob.
depriving?
Or- looking at it differently one might see him as exposing others to the beauty and richness of the past, the historical significance of folk, blues, roots music rather than depriving anyone. Who is being deprived when the structures/melodies he has adapted were not under copyright law?
In a time when modern rock and pop music has become merely a banal"product" and bereft of anything approaching art- (with some exceptions of course)I'm certainly grateful to dylan for exposing me/us to so much of the bedrock of American music as well as the genuine "folk" melodies from around the world that so much of the early folk/rock/blues was built on.
I'm just as grateful to him for bringing exposure to literature as well.
There is a discipline, called "literary allusion" used by writers since the beginning- inspired by, building on or referencing the work and ideas of others. This discipline is studied in Universities and countless books have been published by both academics and "laymen" identifying and chronicling this art form.
And now Dylan is being studied the same way.
Deservedly so.