Publication: Race and Class
Publication Date: 01-OCT-04
Format: Online - approximately 1237 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Searle, Chris
Article Excerpt
Chimes of Freedom: the politics of Bob Dylan's art
By MIKE MARQUSEE (London, Verso, 2003), 160 pp., 14.95 [pounds sterling], $24.95.
If Bob Dylan had done nothing more in his long creative life than give his second, third and fourth albums (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Times They are A-Changin and Another Side of Bob Dylan) to the young people of his epoch, it would still have been a compelling contribution. For me, as one of those who began university a fortnight after the 1963 march on Washington, when the 21-year-old sang to the multitudes alongside King's rhetorical glory, Dylan's words and music on those albums permeated everything else I studied formally. They were like a critical force of my own age, bearing down on me constantly.
It is not exaggerating reality to write that Dylan's testimony was everywhere during that two-year moment of 1963-5. When my friend got hold of a precious ticket for a Dylan concert at Nottingham during his May 1964 tour, he returned from the performance a two-day hero. He had caught a plectrum that Dylan had tossed into the audience: it
became a...
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