Bob Dylan

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From the list of singer-songwriters of the folk era, few have been as impactful on popular culture as Bob Dylan. Though other artists like Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez also released exciting music that stand for the ethos of 1960s, Dylan today is considered the quintessential elder statesman of rock ‘n’ roll and a genius by many. His songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Like a Rolling Stone” have entered among the great American songs and even his recent albums are rated as relevant and great works in their own right. But most likely, even Dylan’s most passionate admirers would be surprised by the extent of the artistic “lifting” that the songwriter relies upon. Musically, Dylan’s songs are rooted in a wide range of influences: the melody of “Masters of War” was taken from a medieval English traditional while the mentioned above “Blowin’ in the Wind” was an adaptation of an old Negro spiritual called “No More Auction Block.” Lyrically, Dylan’s lifting of poetry from earlier artists is even more serious, especially on his recent album Modern Times, in which he literally used lines verbatim from the poetic voice of the Confederacy, Henry Timrod. It is tempting to condemn Dylan for shamelessly stealing from earlier artists, particularly as the “Written by Bob Dylan” tagline is attached to even his most heavily-lifted works. But a discussion on the issue of plagiarism in art is important to understanding the context of Dylan’s actions. According to two authors, Jonathan Lethem and Laurie Stearns, the contemporary system of copyright in the United States is fundamentally wrong, but for two completely different reasons: Lethem argues that the strict copyrighting system turns art into a commodity, while Stearns argues that its ...

Some of the most well known composers came to be in the in the classical music period. Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the composers, along with other greats of the time like Haydn and Mozart, which helped to create a new type of music. This new music had full rich sounds created by the new construction of the symphony orchestra.

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Connie’s choice of music, rock music, adamantly exemplifies the misconception of the minority which is then taken advantage of due to the lack of maturity and experience in the American culture. When Connie returned back home after a feud with her mother, she turns on the radio and listen to a record of Bobby King where she calmly relaxes and bathes in the music. Joyce Carol Oates writes, “She sat on the edge of her bed, barefoot, and listened for an hour and a half to a program called XYZ Sunday Jamboree, record after record of hard, fast, shrieking songs, she sang along with, interspersed by exclamations from “Bobby King”….And Connie paid close attention herself, bathed in a glow of slow-pulsed joy that seemed to rise mysteriously out of the music itself and lay languidly about the airless little room, breathed in and breathed out with each gentle rise and fall out of her chest” (p.2-para.5). Thi...

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In the 1960's music was the soundtrack of pivotal social events such as the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963 and Anti-Vietnam War Manifestations. More precisely, ...

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