Decoding Dylan: Making Sense of the Songs That Changed Modern Culture

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• “Songs for Passersby” by James M. Curtis
• Preface
• Introduction
• Section I: Theories and Practices
• 1. Bob Dylan: His Biography and His Career
• 2. The Early Years in New York
• 3. Affinities with Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot and Pablo Picasso
• Section II: Songs and Songwriting
• 4. Songs of Transcendence—Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde
• Table 1. Chronology of Songs
• Table 2. Night Songs
• 5. Songs of Assimilation—John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline
• 6. “Putting a Certain Orderliness to the Chaos”
• Table 3. Rhyme Forms in Dylan’s Songs of the Early 1960s
• Table 4. Rhyme Forms in Dylan’s Songs of the Late 1960s
• Table 5. Examples of Triple Rhymes in Tin Pan Alley Songs
• Table 6. Triple Rhymes or More in Some American Songs (1968–1984)
• 7.  Dylan and Springsteen
• 8. The Real Revolution of the 1960s
• Table 7. Chronologies of Early Successes of Dylan, Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen by Approximate Age
• Conclusion: Dylan’s Paradoxes
• Chapter Notes
• Bibliography
• Index