Daily Ramblings:
Early On One Frosty Morn' ...07/02/2005 01:31:32 pm
A couple of links to things that touch on Dylan in a more interesting way than the Guardian: This piece by Charles Taylor discusses Southern stereotypes, and how those that buy into them miss the point of some great music, and ends with a consideration of Bob Dylan singing "Dixie" in his film Masked & Anonymous.
And then there's this (thanks to Jay for the link some time ago): Dylan Republicans - from the American Spectator. Not really about Dylan, per se, but nice to see someone else making a connection like that. Actually I think he's wrong when he says that Dylan was aiming The Times They Are A' Changin' at "rich, white Republicans." He picks up on the irony of how it seems to apply more to the stultified left these days, but fails to see that Dylan, even as such a young man, was writing songs that would last; songs which speak to truths of human nature and are not beholden to the erratic winds of political activism.
Well, it's progress ...
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