Bøker av Bob Dylan

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One — and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.   Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyses what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence.   In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years and, like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

An unprecedented publishing event - the first volume in a series of memoirs by one of the most important and influential musicians and songwriters of our time.

A portable, abridged volume of Dylan's lyrics, from the beginning of his career through to the present day.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. "I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities--smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book's side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota, and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times. By turns revealing, poetical, passionate, and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences. Dylan's voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful, and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

Boken inneholder tekstene til 70 Dylan-sanger, oversatt og sangbare på norsk. Sangene er satt opp kronologisk og dekker perioden fra 1962 til 1970.

Bob Dylans tekster har inspirert mange andre artister til å lage praktfulle versjoner som er blitt internasjonale listetopper. Mange artister, også norske, har oversatt Dylan til sitt eget språk.Her kommer imidlertid den utrolige samlingen av Bob Dylans egne, originale tekster. For alle som virkelig setter seg ned og leser disse tekstene, er det ingen overraskelse at Dylan tidligere er foreslått som kandidat til nobelprisen i litteratur. Denne omfangsrike samlingen starter med hans første album Bob Dylan og slutter med hans foreløpig siste album Love and Theft.

Med sine 40 sprelske, burleske, abrupte, komiske hit-og-dit-kast beskriver Tarantula de spastiske bevegelser til et giftstukkent samfunn der vold & ømhet, melankoli & hat, meningsløshet & håp, angst & kjærlighet i rykk & napp trekker i sine tråder festet i leddene til de opptredende pinocchioer.Dette skrev Dylan-kjenner Jan Erik Vold ved utgivelsen av Tarantula på norsk i 1972. I 2005 kan vi fortsatt lese boka med stor litterær undring og glede.

Dylan forteller historien om sitt liv. Han forteller om oppveksten og de tidlige årene av artistkarrieren etter at han kom til New York. Boka er den første i en planlagt trilogi.

For the first time, a comprehensive, definitive collection of lyrics of music legend and poet Bob Dylan, complete with expert annotations

Written in 1966, 'Tarantula' is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and gives a unique insight into Dylan's creative evolution.