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jazzy_dave) wrote2014-06-28 12:12 am
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Book 60 - Greil Marcus "Invisible Republic"
Greil Marcus "Invisible Republic, Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes" (Henry Holt)
Almost written in a stream of consciousness style itself the well-known Marcus imitates Dylan's approach to lyrics as he dissects the influential Basement Tapes.
About half way through though,there's a digression on the eccentric folk song anthologist Harry Smith which is absolutely fascinating. The banjo picking folk blues singer Doc Boggs gets a mention as well.
Strange and hypnotic, his prose is a bit fractured at times, to the point of being occasionally unintelligible , but very good, if perhaps a little over Romantic, on the sources of Dylan's musical weirdness.
Almost written in a stream of consciousness style itself the well-known Marcus imitates Dylan's approach to lyrics as he dissects the influential Basement Tapes.
About half way through though,there's a digression on the eccentric folk song anthologist Harry Smith which is absolutely fascinating. The banjo picking folk blues singer Doc Boggs gets a mention as well.
Strange and hypnotic, his prose is a bit fractured at times, to the point of being occasionally unintelligible , but very good, if perhaps a little over Romantic, on the sources of Dylan's musical weirdness.