DYLAN AT 80

It used to go like that, and now it goes like this

Edited by Gary Browning

& Constantine Sandis

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Bob Dylan Mural by Eduard Kobra, Minneapolis 25 August 2017 (from a photograph by Sharon Mollerus,

licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license CC BY 2.0).

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Contents Dedication Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Prologue: In Death You Face Life Gary Browning & Constantine Sandis 1. Dylan and the Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive

David Boucher 2. Brief Encounter, 1962

Sir Stephen Sedley 3. Spectres of Dylan: Hauntology in Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie (1963)

Emma R. Sears 4. The Uses of Illiteracy: The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

Ray Monk 5. Bob Dylan and the Story of Black America from 1865-1965: Theology? Aesthetics?

Culture? Alexander Douglas

6. Dylan and the Political: Then and Now Gary Browning

7. Dylan’s Stratocaster

Garry L. Hagberg 8. Pledging My Time

Maximilian de Gaynesford 9. Keepin’ On: Bob Dylan’s Path Forward

Nicholas Birns 10. Beyond Communication: Changing Of The Guards as a ‘non-coalescent’ artwork

Sophie Grace Chappell 11. ‘What More Can I tell you? I Sleep with Life and Death in the Same Bed’- Ineffability,

Memory, and Dylan’s ‘Religious’ Thought. Anupama M. Ranawana

12. Apocalypse Soon

K G Miles

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13. Have Times Changed?:A Corpus Comparison Between 20th and 21st Century Dylan Jean-Charles Khalifa

14. Turning Back the Clock: Bob Dylan’s Modern Times

Lucas Hare 15. A Voice Without Restraint: Singing Smooth and Rowdy Ways

Mick Gold 16. Bob Dylan is Giving Himself To the Muse

Laura Tenschert 17. Dylan’s Own Version of Us

Constantine Sandis 18. A Pirate Looks At Eighty

Anne Margaret Daniel 19. The Troubadour as Teacher

Tim Shorrock 20. I Believe In You

Amy Rigby 21. The Bridge at Midnight

Galen Strawson 22. Measuring Out My Life in Bob Dylan

Robyn Hitchcock 23. I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You: Bob Dylan Fandom in the Pandemic Era

Emma Swift 24. ‘My Bob Dylan Mask’: Bob Dylan and the Art of Artifice

Lucy Boucher

25. The Man with No Name Jessica Hundley

26. Tangled Up In Blue: Dylan And Love

Barb Jungr 27. Only Change

Harrison Hewitt 28. Getting There

Keith Frankish 29. ‘Cold Irons Bound’: Bob Dylan, Sculpture and Surreality

Natalie Ferris

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30. Writing Hard: The Poetics of Candour in Dylan and Shakespeare

Katharine A. Craik

31. ‘Unselfing in Bob Dylan and Iris Murdoch’ Fleur Jongepier

32. The Rockstar of Painting and the Picasso of Rock

Ray Foulk 33. ‘I know the score’: Musical Echoes in Dylan’s Live Performances

Roger Dalrymple 34. ‘Furnish Me with Tape’: The Always Evolving Way We Listen to Live Dylan

James Adams 35. The Finishing End?

Michael Gray

Epilogue: Restful Farewell Lou Majaw