Teaching Bob Dylan: "Multitudes"
Teaching Bob Dylan: "Multitudes"
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Teaching Bob Dylan offers educators practical, adaptable strategies for designing or updating courses (or units within courses) on the life, music, career, and critical reception of Bob Dylan. Drawing on the latest pedagogical developments and best classroom practices in a range of fields, the contributors present concrete approaches for teaching not only Dylan’s lyrics and music, but also his many—and sometimes abrupt or unexpected—changes in musical direction, numerous creative guises, and writings. Situating Dylan and his work in their musical, literary, historical, and cultural contexts, the essays explore ways to teach Dylan’s connections to African American music and performers, American popular music, the Beats, Christianity, and the revolutions of the 1960s, and more, and offer strategies for incorporating, and analyzing, not only documentaries and films about or featuring Dylan, but also critical and biographical studies on multiple dimensions of an American icon’s long and complex career.
Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Bob Dylan, Teacher
- Barry J. Faulk, Florida State University, USA, and Brady Harrison, University of Montana, USA
- Part I. Origins & Ways of Making
- 1. Teaching Bob Dylan’s Voice and the Old, Weird America
- John Mac Kilgore, Florida State University, USA
- 2. Bob Dylan and Conceptual Blending
- Michael Booth, University College Cork, Ireland
- Part II. Dylan & History
- 3. Teaching the “Revolutions” of the 1960s through Bob Dylan
- David R. Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- 4. Bob Dylan and the Expansion of the History Classroom
- Court Carney, Stephen F. Austin State University, USA
- Part III. Love & Theft
- 5. Teaching the Gospel
- Lauren Onkey, George Washington University, USA
- 6. The World of Bob Dylan
- Gayle Wald, George Washington University, USA
- 7. Teaching the Roots of Bob Dylan as a Mode of Cultural Self-Reflection in the Classroom: Early Rock and Roll and Hip-Hop
- Robert Reginio, Alfred University, USA
- Part IV. Dylan & Literary Studies
- 8. On the Road (Again) with Bob Dylan, A Poet among (Beat) Poets
- S.E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA
- 9. Mixing Up the Medicine: A Course on Bob Dylan and the Beats
- Paul Haney, Emerson College, USA
- 10. Romances with Durango: Teaching Bob Dylan’s Encounter with Mexican Culture
- Robert Hurd, Anne Arundel Community College, USA
- Part V. Dylan Beyond the Songs
- 11. Teaching Chronicles
- Graley Herren, Xavier University, USA
- 12. Bob Dylan and Documentary Film
- Leigh H. Edwards, Florida State University, USA
- Part VI. Afterword
- Why Teach Dylan?
- Richard F. Thomas, Harvard University, USA
- Appendix A: Contributor Syllabi
- Appendix B: Course Materials
- List of Contributors
- Index
