In “Philosophy of modern song”, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature reviews, with humor and love, sixty-six titles written by others than him, drawn from country and blues, rock ‘ N’Roll and Soul.
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by Bob Dylan, the admirers were waiting on the editorial front the two volumes supposed to complete the triptych announced in 2004 with the publication of the first volume of his chronicles. Now the discussion Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 ultimately offers a book – the third since Tarantula automatic writing prose in 1971 -, but it is not the one who was expected: under a more ironic than snoring title, his philosophy Modern song reviews sixty-six titles (like the American road of the same number) written by others than him. With poetry, humor, love and a subtle meaning of narration.
What to put the American singer at the heart of the news at the age of 81. This unparalleled work among the writings of musicians is in fact part of the resumption of the eternal tour of Dylan, interrupted by the pandemic, which stopped in mid-October for three evenings at the Grand Rex Parisien. Under a blanket showing the happy trio formed by Little Richard, Eddie Cochran and Alis Lesley, the object, richly illustrated (photos, posters, record covers, advertisements, “UNES” of magazines …), was visibly designed to be deposited under the tree. A still life of Cézanne will thus accompany the Tutti Frutti (1955), by Little Richard, when a photo of Julie London winning the phone will illustrate London (1979), from The Clash … This facetious book must be in the hand of Jack Frost, Character of winter folklore that Robert Zimmerman adopted among his many alias.
He is dedicated to Doc Pomus (1925-1991), author of Hits with Death Shuman (including Viva Las Vegas, in 1964, selected in the selection) and the thanks go to the “fishing companion” and screenwriter for television What is Eddie Gorodetsky. Philosophy of modern song extends, in fact, “Theme Time Radio Hour”, a radio program that the two accomplices had concocted from 2006 to 2009. Dylan turned into disc-jockey around themes ranging from the ark of Noah to Halloween and to the first names of women. Two of them were taken up: the money, from the Money Honey (1956), from Elvis Presley, and the shoes, with the inevitable Blue Suede Shoes, this warning that Carl Perkins accompanied by threats, in 1956 “In his young age, we rarely have the means to have the most beautiful car in the neighborhood or to live in the largest house, notes Dylan. But we can manage to wear the most nice pumps. (…) Impossible to Forget the blue suede! What shoes have they cheerfully proclaimed their frivolity than these? What clothing has never claimed so high that its place was not on the farm, that it was not done To walk in the dung? “
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