Bob Dylan Class March 2014

8/12/2019 Bob Dylan Class March 2014

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Course Themes Genres Creativity Technology

America

Race

Gender

Major events

Class

Religion

Youth

Quotes count...

Album Black Sabbath

Song Black Sabbath

Artist Black Sabbath

Bob Dylan

Landscapes Weather

Girl From The

Sad-Eyed Lady Of The

Maggies

Talkin PicnicMassacre Blues

Nashville

Blowin In The

A Hard A-Gonna Fall

Idiot

Buckets Of

Shelter From The


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Biblical & Religious Imagery Knockin On .s Door

Obviously Five

Before The F.

The Ballad of Frankie Lee and ..

Every Grain of .

Gates of .

Grooms Still Waiting at the ..

I Dreamed I Saw .. .........

Hibbing, Minnesota

The Iron Range

200 houses and 20 brick buildings, one of which collapses, are moved from Old to New Hibbing


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A train line cuts the ground showing where the fathers and mothers

Of me and my friends had p icked up and movedFrom North Hibbing to South Hibbing

Old North Hibbing, deserted, already dead. There was no sound except for the wind

Blowing through the high grass, and the bricks that fell back to the dirt

Centralia, PA, where an underground coal fire cant be put out and will burn for 1,000 years

B J Rolfzen

Little Richard Roy Orbison Buddy Holly

Dylanwasatthisshow


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Country Rebel: Hank Williams 1959 1963: A folk music revival fills the cultural vacuumbetween the end of Rock & Roll and arrival of The Beatles

The Kingston Trio: Four LPsinTop 10 in November and

December 1959, a recordunmatched for more than 50 years.The group still ranks in the all time

chart for most weeks with a #1album, most total weeks charting

an album, most #1 albums, mostconsecutive #1 albums, and most

Top 10 albums.

Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley

1959 1963: A folk music revival fills the cultural vacuum

between the end of Rock & Roll and arrival of The Beatles

1959 1963: A folk music revival fills the cultural vacuum

between the end of Rock & Roll and arrival of The Beatles

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100

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East

West

North

Harry Smiths

Anthology

Folkways

Moe Asch

Joe Hill & the IWWLittle Red Songbook

Woody Guthrie Pete Seeger

The Almanac Singers

God Bless America (Irving Berlin)

Kate Smith recorded this in 1938in the build up to World War II.

Greystone Park Asylum

Pete Seeger testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee:

I feel that in my whole life I have never done anything of any conspiratorialnature and I resent very much and very deeply the implication that I am anyless of an American than anyone else. I love my country very dearly, and Igreatly resent the implication that my opinions make me less of an American.

Seeger was sentenced to a year in prison for contempt of court

The Weavers

Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds)


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US Industrial Production

Wall Street

Oct 29 1929

1929-1932: 5,000 banks went bust

Billie Holiday God Bless The Child


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The Bonus Army

Over 10,000 WW1veterans camped

in Washington DC

Bing CrosbyBrother, Can You Spare ADime

Zuccotti Park, NYC St Pauls, London

Washington DC


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Deaths: 7,000

Homeless: 2,500,000


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US Route 66

Oklahoma migrantstransplanted Honky Tonk

country styles to California.

This is called the"Bakersfield Sound".

200,000,000 trees wereplanted from Canada toTexas in an attempt to

break the wind and holdthe soil in place.

Farmers were educatedon new techniques, suchas crop rotation

and contour ploughing.

Buck Owens, Act Naturally

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother

Florence Owens Thompson & Children, 1979

Marion Post Walcott


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Claude Monet 1891


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An allegory for the politics of the 1890s (novel), and the 1930s (film)

ThePanicof 1893 saw 19% unemployment. Withthe loss of lifesavings kept in failedbanks aonce-secure middle-class couldnolonger meet their mortgageobligations. Many walked away fromrecently built homes as aresult. This was the beginningof the

empty decayingVi ctorian "hauntedhouse tropeinAmerican popular culture


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Talkin' New York BluesThis Land Is Your Land

1959: Sees Buddy Holly, goes to University

1960: Dinkytown, Minneapolis, reads Bound For Glory

1961: Arrives in Greenwich Village NYC, visits Guthrie, gets glowing review inNY Times, signs record deal with Columbia

1962: Releases Bob Dylan, writes 250 songs, visits London

1963: Releases Freewheelin, visits Mississippi, plays first big shows (NYC &Newport)

1964: Releases The Times They Are A-Changin, meets The Beatles, releasesAnother Side

1965: Releases Bringing It All Back Home, films Dont Look Back, booed off atNewport, releases Highway 61 Revisited

1966: Releases Blonde On Blonde, Judas! incident in UK, motorbike accident


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I crammed my brain with as much as I could stand

I began cramming my brainwith all kinds of deep poems

Rimbeaud Coleridge

New York Times, Sep 29, 1961

Signed by John HammondRobert Johnson, Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday,

Count Basie, Big Joe Turner,Pete Seeger,Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan,George Benson, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan.


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Hammonds Folly Albert Grossman

Peter, Paul & Mary Ritchie Havens Odetta

Peter, Paul & Mary Ritchie Havens Odetta

Albert Grossman gave Dylan $1,000 to buy back his publishing rights from Duchess Music, andsign instead to Witmark Music. Unknown to Dylan, however, Grossman had also negotiated a deal

with Witmark that gave him 50% of the income generated by any songwriter he brought to thecompany. This "secret deal" resulted in a bitter legal battle in the 1980s.

Grossman also tried to renegotiate Dylans deal with John Hammond at Columbia, as he had beenunder 21 when he signed, but Hammond persuaded Dylan to abide by t he original deal.

Grossman also persuaded John Hammond to step down from producing Dylan, and replaced himwith a young African American producer, Tom Wilson.

Themes: 1962-1964

1. Civil rights and social justice:Blowin In The WindOxford TownSeven CursesPercys SongBallad of Hollis BrownOnly A Pawn In Their GameThe Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

2. The Cold War:Let Me Die In My FootstepsCuban Missile CrisisPlayboys and PlaygirlsA Hard Rains A-Gonna FallMasters of WarTalkin World War III BluesWith God On Our Side

3. Love songs:Girl From The North CountryCorrinaCorrinaBoots of Spanish LeatherTo RamonaIt AintMe Babe

1. Civil Rights Songs:

Only A Pawn In Their Game

Byron De Le Beckwith Medgar Evars

1. Civil Rights Songs: The Lonesome Deathof Hattie Carroll

Hattie Carroll William Zantzinger

YeahIlltellyou somethingI think you'llunderstandwhenI say that somethingI wannaholdyour handI wannaholdyour handI wannaholdyour hand

Ohpleasesay tomeYou'lllet mebeyour man

Andpleasesay tomeYou'lllet meholdyour handI wannaholdyour handI wannaholdyour handI wannaholdyour hand

AndwhenI touchyouI feelhappy insideIt's sucha feelingthat my loveI can't hide

I can't hideI can't hide

Yeahy ougot that somethingI think you'llunderstand

Whenifeel that somethingI wannaholdyour handI wannaholdyour handI wannaholdyour handI wannaholdyour hand

WilliamZanzinger killedpoor Hattie CarrollWithacane that hetwirledaroundhis diamondring fingerAt aBaltimore hotelsocietygath'rin'.Andthecops werecalledinand hisweapontookfrom him

Astheyrode himincustodydown tothe stationAndbooked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder.

WilliamZanzinger, who at twenty-four yearsOwnsatobaccofarmof sixhundredacresWithrichwealthyparentswhoprovideandprotect him

Andhighofficerelationsinthe politics of Maryland,Reactedtohisdeed withashrug of hisshouldersAndswear wordsandsneering, andhistongueit wassnarling,Ina matter of minutes onbail wasout walking.

HattieCarrollwas amaidin thekitchenShewasfifty-oneyearsoldand gavebirthto tenchildrenWhocarriedthedishesand tookout thegarbageAndnever sat onceat theheadof the tableAnddidn't eventalkto thepeopleat thetableWhojust cleaned upall thefoodfromthe tableAndemptiedtheashtrayson awholeother level,Got killed bya blow, layslain bya caneThat sailedthroughtheair andcame downthroughtheroomDoomedand determinedto destroyallthegentle.Andshenever donenothingtoWilliamZanzinger.

Inthe courtroomof honor, thejudgepoundedhisgavelToshowthat all'sequaland that thecourtsareon thelevelAndshowthat thestringsin thebooksain't pulled andpersuadedAndthat eventhe nobles get properlyhandledOncethat thecopshave chasedafter andcaught 'emAndthat theladder of lawhas notop andno bottom,Staredat thepersonwhokilledfor noreasonWhojust happenedto befeelin' that way without warnin'.Andhe spokethroughhiscloak, most deep anddistinguished,Andhandedout strongly, for penaltyand repentance,WilliamZanzinger witha six-monthsentence.

October 1963


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1. Civil Rights Songs: Oxford Town

James Meredith, Ole Miss

2. Anti WarSongs


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Increased measurements of radioactive iodine per capita.

Q. Whats the connection between your iPhone andthe fifty ships of the German Imperial Navy scuttledin Scapa Flow (Scotland) after WW1?

A. The satellite. Background radiation affects these sensitiveorbiting communications devices. Only steel forged before Earthsfirst nuclear explosion in 1945 is completely free of radio active

isotopes, so these old ships are salvaged for that purpose.

Bikini Atoll, The Pacific Marshall Islands.

The bikini, whose launch coincided withthe inaugural nuclear test here in 1946,

was named after Bikini Atoll.

Mutually assured destruction is the essenceof the deterrence concept. We must possess an

actual assured-destruction capability that mustalso be credible. Any potential aggressor must

believe in our assured-destruction capability, andour unwavering will to use it.

Robert McNamara, September 18, 1967


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U.S. informed NATO that "the US may find it necessary to take military action and US Navy dropp ed depthcharges on a Soviet submarine unaware that it was armed with nuclear weapons and h ad orders to use t hem if

attacked. AU.S. spy plan e then accidentally over-flew the Soviet Union, causing MIG fighter s to scramble. This inturn meant American F-102s with nuclear air-to-air missiles were sent into eng agement.

Cuban Missile Crisis"Black Saturday" October 27, 1962

1958:United States Air Force loses a7,600 poundhyd rogen bomb off

Tybee Island, Georgia.

Bomb jettisoned after a mid-air collisionbetween B-47 bomber & F-86figh ter plane

Despite numerous searches it was never found.

Ahund red times more powerful than Hiroshima.

Masters of War

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?Ive stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountainsIve walked and Ive crawled on six crooked highwaysIve stepped in the middle of seven sad forestsIve been out in front of a dozen dead oceansIve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyardAnd its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, and its a hardAnd its a hard rains a-gonna fall

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around itI saw a highway of diamonds with n obody on itI saw a black branch with blood that kept drippinI saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin

I saw a white ladder all covered with waterI saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all brokenI saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young childrenAnd its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, its a hardAnd its a hard rains a-gonna fall

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?Ive stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountainsIve walked and Ive crawled on six crooked highwaysIve stepped in the middle of seven sad forestsIve been out in front of a dozen dead oceansIve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyardAnd its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, and its a hardAnd its a hard rains a-gonna fall

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?Oh, what did you see, my darli ng young one?I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around itI saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on itI saw a black branch with blood that kept drippinI saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedinI saw a white ladder all covered with waterI saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all brokenI saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young childrenAnd its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, its a hardAnd its a hard rains a-gonna fall

Lord Randall

Coining A Phrase

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?Ive stumbled on the side of twelve mi sty mountainsIve walked and Ive crawled on six crooked highwaysIve stepped in the middle of seven sad forestsIve been out in front of a d ozen dead oceansIve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyardAnd its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, and its a hardAnd its a hard rains a-gonna fall

Oh, what did you see, my blu e-eyed son?Oh, what did you see, my darlin g young one?I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around itI saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on itI saw a black branch with blood that kept drippinI saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedinI saw a white ladder all covered with waterI saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all brokenI saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young childrenAnd its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, its a hardAnd its a hard rains a-gonna fall


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3. Love Songs

Tom CruisePenelope Cruz

Vanilla Sky

Bob DylanSuze Rotolo

Freewheelin

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth (45s)

"Rip down all hate," I screamed

Lies that life is black and white

Spoke from my skull. I dreamed

Romantic facts of musketeers

Foundationd deep, somehow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now.

A self-ordained professor's tongue (2m15s)

Too serious to fool

Spouted out that liberty

Is just equality in school"Equality," I spoke the word

As if a wedding vow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now.

My Back Pages

Assassination

AssassinationAttempted

Assassination


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Subterranean Homesick Blues

Johnnys in the basementMixing up the medicineIm on the pavementThinking about the governmentThe man in the trench coatBadge out, laid offSays hes got a bad coughWants to get it paid off

Maggie comes fleet footFace full of black sootTalkin that the heat putPlants in the bed butThe phones tapped anywayMaggie says that many sayThey must bust in early MayOrders from the D.A.

Subterranean Homesick Blues portrays lifeas a series of discrete, unc onnectedsensations, none of which take precedenceover another and which together constituteno coherent, meaningful reality

Hersch, C. (1998) Democratic Artworks:Politics and the arts from Trilling to DylanState University of New York Press (p.154)

Its Alright, Ma (Im Only Bleeding)

Disillusioned words like bullets barkAs human gods aim for their markMake everything from toy guns that sparkTo flesh-colored Christs that glow in the darkIts easy to see without looking too farThat not much is really sacred

While preachers preach of evil fatesTeachers teach that knowledge waitsCan lead to hundred-dollar platesGoodness hides behind its gatesBut even the president of the United StatesSometimes must have to stand naked

Advertising signs they conYou into thinking youre the oneThat can do whats never been doneThat can win whats never been wonMeantime life outside goes onAll around you

I wish that for just one time

You could stand inside my shoesAnd just for that one momentI could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one timeYou could stand inside my shoes

Youd know what a drag it isTo see you

Edie Sedgwick

Like A Rolling Stone


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The opening snare

Al Kooper, the organ


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Oh God said to Abraham, Kill me a sonAbe says, Man, you must be puttin me onGod say, No. Abe say, What?God say, You can do what you want Abe, butThe next time you see me comin you better runWell Abe says, Where do you want this killin done?God says, Out on Highway 61

Now the rovin gambler he was very boredHe was tryin to create a next world warHe found a promoter who nearly fell off the floorHe said, I never engaged in this kind of thing before

But yes I think it can be very easily done.Well just put some bleachers out in the sunAnd have it on Highway 61.

Genesis22:1-18

1 God did tempt Abraham. He said, Take now thine only son Isaac, andoffer him upon one of the mountains

3 And Abraham took Isaac his son, and went unto the place of which Godhad told him.

9 And Abraham built an altar and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaachis son and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

10 Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

11 The angel of the LORD called unto h im out of heaven, and said,Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad: for now I know that thoufearest God


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Parable of the Old Man and the Young

Then Abram bound the youth with belts and traps,and builded parapets and trenches there,And stretchd forth the knife to slay hi s son.When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,

Neither do anything to him. Behold,A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Wilfred Owen

Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat

Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hatYes, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hatWell, you must tell me, babyHow your head feels under somethin like thatUnder your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

Well, you look so pretty in itHoney, can I jump on it sometime?Yes, I just wanna seeIf its really that expensive kindYou know it balances on your headJust like a mattress balancesOn a bottle of wineYour brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

Well, I see you got a new boyfriendYou know, I never seen him beforeWell, I saw himMakin love to youYou forgot to close the garage doorYou might think he loves you for your moneyBut I know what he really loves you forIts your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

"Any bloody pop group could do this rubbish!

It was a bloody disgrace. It was.He wants shooting! He's a traitor."

Keith Butler, Manchester Free Trade Hall, 17 May 1 966


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