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Extracts from DETERMINED TO STAND: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan: Dark Eyes and Roll On John
extracts from DETERMINED TO STAND
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RAISE THOSE LAUGHING EYES: SPANISH IS THE LOVING TONGUE
Chris examines Dylan's amazing version of SPANISH IS THE LOVING TONGUE
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NOTHIN’ HERE NOW TO HOLD THEM: THE TRAGEDY OF NORTH COUNTRY BLUES
A look at Dylan's brilliant social protest NORTH COUNTRY BLUES
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PALE DEATH RETREATING: Symbolism, Metaphor and Metamorphosis in Dylan’s Changing of the Guards
Chris looks at Dylan's great CHANGING OF THE GUARDS
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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...