Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century (American Made Music Series)

I learned much, took many notes, went down some new trails, and sang along the way.”David Gaines, author of In Dylan Town: A Fan’s Life. “Tearing the World Apart offers eleven lively ways of looking at Millennial Dylan. First-person observations, close readings of Dylan’s twenty-first-century music and film, and contagious joy dance together between the book’s covers. Each essay, like a good Dylan song, stands on its own merits and suggests rich trails to follow

She is coeditor of and contributor to Dylan at Play.Eric Hoffman, Vernon, Connecticut, is a poet and essayist. . He is author of Oppen: A Narrative and coeditor of Dave Sim: Conversations; Chester Brown: Conversations; and Seth: Conversations, all published by University Pre

This is a Dylan of persistent surrender from and engagement with a world he perceives as broken and enduring, addressing us from a past that is lost and yet forever present.Tearing the World Apart participates in the creation of the postmillennial Bob Dylan by exploring three central records of the twenty-first century“Love and Theft” (2001), Modern Times (2006), and Tempest (2012)along with the 2003 film Masked and Anonymous, which Dylan helped write and in which he appears as an actor and musical performer.The collection of essays does justice to this difficult Bob Dylan by examining his method and effects through a disparate set of viewpoints. Dionysian impresario. Rock poet. Contributions by Alberto Brodesco, James Cody, Andrea Cossu, Anne Margaret Daniel, Jesper Doolard, Nina Goss, Jonathan Hodgers, Jamie Lorentzen, Fahri Öz, Nick Smart, and Thad WilliamsonBob Dylan is many