Bob Dylan and the British Sixties A Cultural History
Auteur : Jones Tudor
Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s. He visited Britain on several occasions and performed across the country both as an acoustic folk singer and as an electric-rock musician. His tours of Britain in the mid-1960s feature heavily in documentary films such as D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back and Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home and the concerts contain some of his most acclaimed ever live performances. Dylan influenced British rock musicians such as The Beatles, The Animals, and many others; they, in turn, influenced him.
Yet this key period in Dylan's artistic development is still under-represented in the extensive literature on Dylan. Tudor Jones rectifies that glaring gap with this deeply researched, yet highly readable, account of Dylan and the British Sixties. He explores the profound impact of Dylan on British popular musicians as well as his intense, and at times fraught, relationship with his UK fan base. He also provides much interesting historical context ? cultural, social, and political ? to give the reader a far greater understanding of a defining period of Dylan's hugely varied career. This is essential reading for all Dylan fans, as well as for readers interested in the tumultuous social and cultural history of the 1960s.
1. First Time in London: Winter 1962-63
2. Transatlantic influences: Folk, beat music and R’n’B
3. Second time in London: May 1964
4. The 1965 British Tour
5. Going Electric: Folk-Rock and The Beatles
6. 1965-66 Revisited
7. "Judas": The 1966 British Tour
8. Back to the Country: 1967-68
9. From Woodstock to the Isle of Wight 1968-69
10. Conclusion
Dr Tudor Jones is a political historian and is Hon. Research Fellow in History of Political Thought at Coventry University, UK. He is the author of The Revival of British Liberalism: From Grimond to Clegg (2011), Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas (Routledge, 2002) and Remaking the Labour Party:From Gaitskell to Blair (Routledge, 1996). He is also a lifelong admirer of Bob Dylan.
Date de parution : 12-2018
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 12-2018
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Bob Dylan and the British Sixties :
Mots-clés :
Young Man; Blonde on Blonde; Greek Street; Freewheelin'; Pop Stars; Highway 61 Revisited; Trade Hall; Bringing it all Back Home; UK Chart; John Wesley Harding; London’s Royal Albert Hall; Folk Music; Charlie Watts; Counterculture; Country Music; National Front NF; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Sir Oswald Mosley; Patriot Game; Martin Carthy; Levon Helm; British Beat Group; Folk Music Enthusiasts; Wight Festival; Acoustic Folk Music; Folk Music Movement; Contemporary Society; Basement Tapes; British Popular Music; Al Kooper; Gerry Goffin; Big Pink; UK Part; BBC Tv