Bob Dylan

Point Blank (Quick Studies) is the first major publication of Bob Dylan's artwork in over a decade, featuring nearly 100 never-before-seen drawings. Bob Dylan is a master at telling stories, creating moods and provoking feelings – not only in music and the written word but also in visual art, which he has been creating since the 1960s. This publication of his art features nearly 100 black-and-white drawings that were completed between 2021 and 2022 and served as the basis for his latest exhibition – also titled Point Blank – at London's Halcyon Gallery in early 2025. The works vary between portraits, still lifes and landscapes: roller-skating lovers, a suit of armour, a suspension bridge, a karaoke singer, a roll of Scotch tape, a Parisian canal, a man with a crooked smile. Accompanying the artwork are short prose vignettes written by Eddie Gorodetsky, Jackie Hamilton and Lucy Sante that further enhance the images' evocativeness. Dylan's ability to find beauty and mystery in the seemingly mundane is one of his great gifts – and the gift he's continually given to the public over the years, including now with Point Blank.

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Bob Dylan är en av vår samtids mest betydande låtskrivare och musikpoeter. I Sångtexter 1961-2020 samlas texter från början av hans karriär till idag för första gången, försedda med hans egna redigeringar och omarbetningar. Dylan är känd för att ändra i sina texter, till och med i sina mest älskade sånger, vilket gör den här utgåvan till ett måste för såväl fans som fanatiker. Nu som utökad utgåva med texter fram till 2020.

År 2000 fick Bob Dylan Polapriset med följande motivering: "Bob Dylans förmåga att sammansmälta poesi, harmoni och melodi till en meningsfull - ofta provokativ - helhet har fängslat människor i alla åldrar och i de flesta kulturer världen över. Genom sitt anspråkslösa men övertygande musikaliska uttryckssätt har han visat en imponerande förmåga att ifrågasätta de starkaste politiska krafterna, bekämpa alla former av fördomar och ge de svagare i samhället ett orubbligt stöd. Även de som inte delar hans åsikter har funnit det omöjligt att argumentera mot Bob Dylans musikaliska och poetiska briljans. Bob Dylans inflytande som sångare och låtskrivare inom populärmusiken under 1900-talet är odiskutabelt. Hans gärning omspänner nästan fyra decenniers nyskapande, alltid grundad på amerikansk tradition. Han började med folkmusik och nådde omåttliga framgångar hos såväl kritiker som publik då han bröt mot vedertagna begrepp och inte längre framträdde ensam med sin akustiska gitarr utan tillsammans med ett rock and roll-band. Det var en förändring och utveckling som krävde både självständighet och beslutsamhet, och som befäste hans position som en av de största rockartisterna i vår tid." Och 2016 belönades Bob Dylan med Nobelpriset i litteratur, med motiveringen att han "skapat nya poetiska uttryck inom den stora amerikanska sångtraditionen.” Men vem är han? Utgivna på nytt är nu första delen av Bob Dylans memoarer.

”Det som spelar roll är vad låten får dig att känna om ditt eget liv.” I sextio infallsrika essäer går Bob Dylan igenom sinafavoritlåtar, från Elvis Presleys ”Viva Las Vegas” till Elvis Costellos ”Pump It Up”. Han analyserar, han filosoferar, han placerar låtarna i ett historiskt sammanhang och gör dem samtidigt levande igen. Men framför allt ger han läsaren en unik inblick i hur en genial låtskrivare tänker om text och musik. Den rikt illustrerade Låtskrivarkonsten är Bob Dylans första bok sedan den hyllade självbiografin från 2004 – en bättre introduktion till den moderna låtskattens filosofi kan man inte tänka sig.

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 for 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 sixty 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 analyzes 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.

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 for Literature in 2016. The audio is narrated by an all-star lineup including Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac, Helen Mirren, Rita Moreno, Sissy Spacek, Alfre Woodard, Jeffrey Wright, and Ren e Zellweger Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty 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 analyzes 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 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.

I Den moderne sang giver Bob Dylan sine læsere en masterclass i sangskrivningens kunst i over 60 essays om tekster skrevet af de største musikere i den moderne sanghistorie. I Den moderne sang tager Bob Dylan læseren med ind i det musikalske værksted og fortæller om kunsten at skrive en sangtekst. Den ikoniske amerikanske musiker og modtager af Nobelprisen i litteratur har haft et album på Billboards Top 40 hvert årti siden 1960erne, men i bogen skriver han ikke om sine egne sange, han fokuserer på andres. I over 60 essays skriver Bob Dylan om sange af bl.a. Stephen Foster og Elvis Costello, Hank Williams og Nina Simone. Han dykker ned i, hvordan en enkelt stavelse kan skade en sang, analyserer det, han kalder det lette rims fælde og finder forbindelser mellem blue grass og heavy metal. Dylans essays handler umiddelbart om musik, men er også refleksioner over det at være menneske. Bogen er illustreret med næsten 150 fotografier. Bob Dylan (født 1941 i Duluth, Minnesota, USA) har udgivet 39 album og solgt 125 millioner plader. I 2016 modtog Bob Dylan Nobelprisen i litteratur for at "have skabt nye poetiske udtryk inden for den store amerikanske sangtradition."

Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge. Lost and lonely people huddle together in the local guesthouse. The owner, Nick, owes more money than he can ever repay, his wife Elizabeth is losing her mind, and their daughter Marianne is carrying a child no one will account for. So, when a preacher selling bibles and a boxer looking for a comeback turn up in the middle of the night, things spiral beyond the point of no return... In Girl from the North Country, Conor McPherson beautifully weaves the iconic songbook of Bob Dylan into a show full of hope, heartbreak and soul. It premiered at The Old Vic, London, in July 2017, in a production directed by Conor McPherson, and later transferred to the West End, Broadway, Australia, Ireland and toured the UK.

Bog med artikler af John Elderfield, tidl. chefkurator på Museum of Modern Art, New York samt Kasper Monrad, seniorforsker på Statens Museum for Kunst. Bogen viser i store gengivelser og detaljer de 40 malerier, Dylan har maleti perioden 2009-10.

(Guitar Chord Songbook). Singer, songwriter, performer, author, poet, visual artist, and now the first American songwriter to win a Nobel Prize in literature, Bob Dylan is one of the most influential figures in popular culture. In this folio, enjoy every song written and recorded by Bob Dylan to date in chord songbook format. Includes chord symbols, guitar chord shapes and full lyrics. It also features a specially-written foreword by Jimmy Webb and an extensive introduction about Dylan's guitar playing and songwriting. 588 pages