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... Bob hated it when they grabbed at him, but he was at heart a polite Midwesterner and he did not mind saying hello. ... ”--his voice was so distinctive, with words pushed up from his diaphragm in bursts and then seemingly squeezed out though his almost comical nose, emphasizing the wrong word in a sentence and clipping other words short, it could be only Bob Dylan.” (Sounes, 1)
Bob Dylan’s musical voice can be heard anytime over the last forty years. ... Although he has only sold 56 million records world wide in his lifetime (a modest number when compared to the Beatles’ near 600 million) and never had a number one hit, he has had an extremely important affect on our culture. “His greatest albums, such as Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the Tracks, are touchstones for popular culture.” (Sounes XI)
Dylan’s life story is a popular culture phenomena in its self and great books have been written on it alone. Over his lifetime he has gone though many phases and affected our culture from too many angles to do justice in a mere eight to ten pages. ... The argument can clearly be made that popular culture wise, these are the most significant years. ... Coming from his home in Minnesota to New York city at the tender age of nineteen, the baby faced young man took to the stages of small coffee houses under the name of “Bob Dillon” (changed shortly afterward to Bob Dylan) He struggled to get by armed only with an acoustic guitar and a harmonica. ... It matched the popular culture definition of folk perfectly. ... 4th street and Greenwich village in New York were the centers for it all and Bob Dylan along with many ragged young adults with shaggy hair and working man’s outfits were perfect stereotypes of what the lifestyle encompassed. ...
The album was simply titled Bob Dylan (1961). ... He only had two original’s; “Song to Woody”, a tribute to Woody Guthrie who was a hero to Dylan and a celebrity to folk music, and “Talkin’ New York Blues”, a tale of Bob Dylan’s first experience in New York City. ... Bob Dylan sold only about 5,000 copies, but was noticed by the New York folk scene. ...
It was around this time that Bob Dylan befriended Joan Baez. ... Every morning Bob would spend hours at the type writer pumping out songs, while Joan made accommodations so he could work comfortably.
The result of all of this was Bob Dylan’s second album with Columbia. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was released in May of 1963. ...
Bob Dylan biggest success from the album, however, was “Blowin’ in the Wind” a song where Dylan boldly announces that the answer to all of the worlds problems are “Blowing in the Wind”. ...
“The Freewheelin’ heavily Impacted popular music. ... ”
Dylan’s Next album Another Side Of Bob Dylan left a lot of his fans confused. ... The album really was “another side” of Bob Dylan (although according to friends Bob was deeply opposed to the name, feeling that it was overstating the obvious. ... The following is part of a letter that appeared in popular folk magazine Sing out! ... But then you’re a different Bob Dylan than the one we knew. ... (Note: This was a line from “Don’t Think Twice its All Right”, Sibler was ironicly using Dylan’s own words against him) The American Success Machinery chews up geniuses at the rate of one a day and still hungers for more…Give it some thought Bob. Believe me when I say that this letter is written out of love and deep concern… Irwin Sibler”
Another Side Of Bob Dylan was definitely still folk music by all means and contained some of his greatest work. ...
Despite criticism Bob Dylan charged on, cutting tracks for his new album Bringing It All Back Home in three days. ... The second one still in the style of Another Side Of Bob Dylan, But the first side confirmed the folkies worst fear. Bob Dylan had gone electric. ... Its was clear then that Bob Dylan had created something truly significant to popular culture. ...
In late April of 1965, Bob Dylan went on a two week tour of England. ... Pennybaker accompanied him and was able to get a fly on the wall view of Bob Dylan behind the scenes along with excellent concert footage. ... “No I’m not folk” he says at one point “You might call me folk but I’m not…I’m not pop either” it also does a great job of showing the rituals and formulas of touring for Bob Dylan. ... Bob Dylan first took the stage at the festival on July 24th. He got a cheers and applause while he performed “All I Really Want to Do” off of Another Side Of Bob Dylan, still staying well within conventions of the folk cultures formula. ...
Bob Dylan and his band finished that song then quickly burst into “Like a Rolling Stone” and the booing kept on “It was the antithesis of what the festival was supposed to be doing” said one audience member. “The electric guitar represented capitalism… the people who were selling out”, After another song, The band had only learned 3, Bob left the stage.
Approximate Word count = 4379
Approximate Pages = 17.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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