Book contents
- The World of Bob Dylan
- The World of Bob Dylan
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Time to Say Goodbye Again
- Part I Creative Life
- Part II Musical Contexts
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Political Contexts
- Chapter 20 The Civil Rights Movement
- Chapter 21 The Counterculture
- Chapter 22 Gender and Sexuality: Bob Dylan’s Body
- Chapter 23 Justice
- Part V Reception and Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 20 - The Civil Rights Movement
from Part IV - Political Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2021
- The World of Bob Dylan
- The World of Bob Dylan
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Time to Say Goodbye Again
- Part I Creative Life
- Part II Musical Contexts
- Part III Cultural Contexts
- Part IV Political Contexts
- Chapter 20 The Civil Rights Movement
- Chapter 21 The Counterculture
- Chapter 22 Gender and Sexuality: Bob Dylan’s Body
- Chapter 23 Justice
- Part V Reception and Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
When Sean Wilentz watched Bob Dylan perform in Minneapolis on the night of Barack Obama’s election in 2008, he noted how “the stubbornly reticent Dylan broke with habit” and spoke directly to his audience, telling them that, although he had “lived in a world of darkness,” the election of America’s first black president made it look like “things are gonna change now.” Wilentz himself wasn’t too sure, either about Dylan’s prediction or, in fact, his sincerity: “Though I understood the symbolism and the emotive force, I was more skeptical at the time, and could imagine that Dylan was being ironic or at least ambiguous.
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- The World of Bob Dylan , pp. 239 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021