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Highway Revisited This page intentionally left blank Highway Revisited Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss, Editors University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London Lyrics by Bob Dylan copyright Ram’s Horn Music, Special Rider Music, Big Sky Music, or Dwarf Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission. Copyright 2009 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo - copying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Highway 61 revisited : Bob Dylan’s road from Minnesota to the world / Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss, editors. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-6099-5 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8166-6100-8 1. Dylan, Bob, 1941. 2. Singers—United States—Biography. 3. Dylan, Bob, 1941– Criticism and interpretation. 4. Hibbing (Minn.)—History. I. Sheehy, Colleen J. (Colleen Josephine), 1953– II. Swiss, Thomas, 1952– ML420.D98H54 2009 782.42164092—dc22 [B] 2009003358 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For B. J. Rolfzen Highway 61, the main thoroughfare of the country blues, begins about where I came from...I always felt like I’d started on it, always had been on it, and could go anywhere from it, even down into the deep Delta country. It was the same road, full of the same contradictions, the same one- horse towns, the same spiritual ancestors...It was my place in the universe, always felt like it was in my blood. —BOB DYLAN, Chronicles, Volume 1 Contents Introduction Colleen J. Sheehy, John Barner, and Thomas Swiss xi Part I. Highway 61, from North to South 1. Hibbing High School and “the Mystery of Democracy” Greil Marcus 3 2. Jewish Homes on the Range, 1890–1960 Marilyn J. Chiat 15 3. Not from Nowhere: Identity and Aspiration in Bob Dylan’s Hometown Susan Clayton 25 4. “A Lamp Is Burning in All Our Dark”: Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash Court Carney 39 5. Allowed to Be Free: Bob Dylan and the Civil Rights Movement Charles Hughes 44 Part II. Planet Waves 6. Lives of Allegory: Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol Thomas Crow 63 7. Like the Night: Reception and Reaction Dylan UK 1966 C. P. Lee 78 8. Oh, the Streets of Rome: Dylan in Italy Alessandro Carrera 84 9. Bob Dylan’s Reception in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s Mikiko Tachi 106 10. Borderless Troubadour: Bob Dylan’s Influence on International Protest during the Cold War Heather Stur 122 Part III. The Ancients, Whom All Moderns Prize 11. Bob Dylan’s Lives of the Poets: Theme Time Radio Houras Buried Autobiography Mick Cochrane 133 12. Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace Robert Polito 140 13. Among Schoolchildren: Dylan’s Forty Years in the Classroom Kevin J. H. Dettmar 154 Part IV. In a Voice without Restraint 14. Women Do Dylan: The Aesthetics and Politics of Dylan Covers Daphne Brooks and Gayle Wald 169 15. Crow Jane Approximately: Bob Dylan’s Black Masque Aldon Lynn Nielsen 186 16. Not Dark Yet: How Bob Dylan Got His Groove Back David Yaffe 197 17. “Nettie Moore”: Minstrelsy and the Cultural Economy of Race in Bob Dylan’s Late Albums Robert Reginio 213 18. “Somewhere down in the United States”: The Art of Bob Dylan’s Ventriloquism Michael Cherlin and Sumanth Gopinath 225 19. Dylan/Disabled: Tolling for the Deaf and Blind Alex Lubet 237 20. Bob Dylan and the Beats: Magpie Poetics, an Investigation and Memoir Anne Waldman 249 Acknowledgments 261 Contributors 263 Index 267
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