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REVIEWS Of ‘DETERMINED TO STAND’: THE REINVENTION OF BOB DYLAN
Here is a collection of the currently available reviews of ‘Determined to Stand’. All extremely positive I’m happy to report! THE REVIEWERS Scott Beauchamp https://www.splicetoday.com/music/there-are-two-ways-to-write-about-bob-dylan Christopher Rollason https://rollason.wordpress.com/2021/06/07/new-writing-on-bob-dylan-chris-gregory-determined-to-stand-2/ Den Browne https://louderthanwar.com/determined-to-stand-the-reinvention-of-bob-dylan-book-review/ Anne Pritchard https://number9reviews.blogspot.com/2021/05/book-review-determined-to-stand.html Bonnie De Moss https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57795771-determined-to-stand?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=DUX7NvARSz&rank=2 Betanda Shaman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57795771-determined-to-stand?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=DUX7NvARSz&rank=2 Amazon Reviews (13) https://www.amazon.co.uk/DETERMINED-STAND-Reinvention-Bob-Dylan/product-reviews/0955751217/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_paging_btm_prev_1?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&pageNumber=1 SCOTT BEAUCHAMP in ‘SPLICE TODAY’ https://www.splicetoday.com/music/there-are-two-ways-to-write-about-bob-dylan There...
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‘DETERMINED TO STAND’ REVIEWS Part One
A number of reviews of Determined to Stand: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan have now appeared online. Here are some links: DR. CHRISTOPHER ROLLASON: New Writing on Bob Dylan: Chris Gregory, ‘Determined To Stand’ ANNE PRITCHARD (NUMBER 9 REVIEWS) https://number9reviews.blogspot.com/2021/05/book-review-determined-to-stand.html DEN BROWNE: Determined To Stand: the Reinvention of Bob Dylan – book review ...
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PODCAST: A Headful of Ideas Season One 8) Self Portrait – An American Symphony
DYLAN LINKS DAILY DYLAN NEWS at the wonderful EXPECTING RAIN THE BOB DYLAN PROJECT- COMPREHENSIVE LISTINGS THE OFFICIAL SITE BOB DYLAN ARCHIVE STILL ON THE ROAD – ALL DYLAN’S GIGS WIKIPEDIA MICHAEL GRAY BOB DYLAN CONCORDANCE ISIS – DYLAN MAGAZINE DEFINITELY DYLAN BORN TO LISTEN SKIPPING REELS OF RHYME UNTOLD DYLAN BADLANDS BRINGING...
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POEM: Mask
I’m peering from behind a mask, A mob is shaped into a crocodile Winding around me. I’m swept up Carried on the backs of impossible beasts, Horn and claw are raised and tails sway I have no face. Perspectives are torn Out of shape. Some are redrawn But nothing escapes the architecture’s demands That its...
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EXPLORING TELEVISUALITY: The Tudors
What is ‘televisuality’? The word has been bandied around rather loosely by media academics for a decade or so. Broadly speaking we can say that the word refers to the attempts that have been made to examine the fundamental nature of television as a form of communication. But there is little consensus between those...
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RICHARD THOMPSON Sweet Warrior
Richard Thompson can transport you to places in his songs like no-one else. Drawing his inspiration from folk songs, oral tales, tattered history books, half remembered stories, bizarre websites and advertising catalogues, Thompson is a master of time and space. Many of his best songs place you in a specific historical context, then move...
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Magic
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: MAGIC Bruce Springsteen’s Magic is a journey into the darkness of the ‘American night’; a portrait of a country mired in confusion, its value-systems broken down, its soul in torment. As a writer, Springsteen is often misunderstood. This is partly because he often casts his narratives in the form of raucous rock...
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MOVIE: Children of Men: Contemporary Distopia
I saw a film today, oh boy…. It’s only once every few years that you walk out of a film and you are so gobsmacked that you can hardly speak. It happened to me a couple of days ago on my first viewing of Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, adapted from the novel by P.D....