The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob

✍ Scribed by Kinney, David

• Book ID: 107897130
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 966 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781451626926

✦ Synopsis

FAN: "You don't know who I am, but I know who you are."
****BOB DYLAN: "Let's keep it that way."
****Bob Dylan is the most influential songwriter of our time and, after a half century, he remains a cultural touchstone, an enigma, and the subject of endless fascination. From the moment he arrived on the music scene, he attracted an intensely fanatical cult following, and in The Dylanologists , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Kinney ventures deep into this eccentric subculture to answer a question: What can Dylan's grip on his most enthusiastic listeners tell us about his towering place in American culture?
Kinney introduces us to a vibrant underground: diggers searching for unheard tapes and lost manuscripts, researchers obsessing over the facts of Dylan's life and career, writers working to decode unyieldingly mysterious songs, road warriors who meticulously record and dissect every...