Description: Boucher and Browning explore Bob Dylan's radical and changing engagement with the "political." The contributions deal with various aspects and periods of Dylan's career, from his early protest ballads to the artistic high-point of his mid-1960s electric period.
Brief description:
Gary Browning is a Professor of Political Thought at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of many books, including Why Iris Murdoch Matters (Bloomsbury, 2018) and A History of Modern Political Thought: The Question of Interpretation (OUP, 2016), and is co-editor of The Political Art of Bob Dylan. His interest in Bob Dylan goes back to the release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, when he realised that popular music was a serious business.
Review Quotes:
"These essays enrich our understanding of Dylan's eccentricity as a political writer, and provide new insight into his most powerful work. The Political Art of Bob Dylan is a thought-provoking volume."
--Sam Urquhart