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Contents Acknowledgements NotesontheContributors Preface 1 Introduction,DavidBoucherandGaryBrowning 2 TheDrifter’sEscape,AndrewGamble 3 BobDylan’sCritiqueofJudgement: ‘Thinkin’abouttheLaw’,RichardBrown 4 JudasandtheMany‘Betrayals’ofBobDylan, MichaelJones 5 TheCryofHumanity:Dylan’sExpressionistPeriod, LawrenceWilde 6 BobDylan,LiveAid,andthePoliticsofPopular Cosmopolitanism,ChrisBrown 7 BobDylan:(Post)ModernTimes,GaryBrowning 8 ‘Youcanalwayscomeback,butyoucan’tcomeback alltheway’:freedomandthepastinDylan’srecent work,ElizabethBrake 9 ImagesandDistortedFacts:Imagination,Inspiration andDuende,DavidBoucher DylanTimeline,DavidBoucherandGaryBrowning Also Available The Political Art of Bob Dylan RevisedandExpandedSecondEdition EditedbyDavidBoucherandGaryBrowning imprint-academic.com Copyright © D. Boucher, G. Browning & contributors, 2009, 2015 The moral rights of the author have been asserted. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism and discussion. Published in the UK by Imprint Academic, PO Box 200, Exeter EX5 5YX, UK Published in the USA by Imprint Academic, Philosophy Documentation Center PO Box 7147, Charlottesville, VA 22906-7147, USA Digital edition converted and distributed by Andrews UK Limited www.andrewsuk.com Print ISBN - 9781845401207 PDF ISBN - 9781845406530 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library and US Library of Congress Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for permission to reprintBobDylan’slyrics:‘Jokerman’©1983SpecialRider Music.‘MostLikelyYouGoYourWay(andI’llGoMine)’,© 1966, renewed 1994 Dwarf Music. ‘Love Minus Zero/No Limit’, © Warner Bros Inc. 1965, renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. ‘Cross the Green Mountain’, © 2003 Special RiderMusic.‘HardTimesinNewYorkTown’,©1962,1965 MCA,renewed1990MCA.‘It’sAlrightMaI’mOnlyBleed- ing’ © 1965, Warner Bros Inc., renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. ‘The Times They Are A’-Changin’ © 1963, WarnerBrosInc.,©renewed1991bySpecialRiderMusic. ‘ThingshaveChanged’,©1999SpecialRiderMusic.‘Shel- ter From the Storm’, © 1974 Ram’s Horn Music. ‘Senor (TalesofYankeePower)’,©1978SpecialRiderMusic.‘Shel- ter From the Storm’, © 1974 Ram’s Horn Music. ‘Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again’, © 1966, renewed1994DwarfMusic.‘SweetheartLikeYou’,©1983 Special Rider Music. ‘ShootingStar’,© 1989 Special Rider Music.‘CaribbeanWind’,1985SpecialRiderMusic.‘Sum- merDays’,©2001SpecialRiderMusic.‘UnionSundown’, ©1983SpecialRiderMusic.‘PoliticalWorld’©1989Special RiderMusic.‘TrainA’Travellin’,©1968,renewed1996Spe- cialRiderMusic.‘SlowTrain’,©1979SpecialRiderMusic. ‘BlindWillieMcTell’,©1983SpecialRiderMusic.‘George Jackson’, © 1971 Ram’s Horn Music. ‘Lonesome Death of HattieCarroll’©WarnerBrosInc.,©renewed1992bySpe- cial Rider Music. ‘Hurricane’, © 1975 Ram’s Horn Music. ‘Highway61Revisited’,©1965WarnerChappell,renewed 1993SpecialRiderMusic.‘FromaBuick6’,©1965,renewed Acknowledgements v 1993 Special Rider Music. ‘Simple Twist of Fate’, © 1974 Ram’s Horn Music. ‘Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream’, © 1965; renewed1993SpecialRiderMusic.‘It’sAlrightMaI’mOnly Bleeding’,©1965,WarnerBrosInc.,renewed1993bySpe- cialRiderMusic.‘DesolationRow’©1965WarnerBrosInc., renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. ‘You’re a Big Girl Now’©1974Ram’sHornMusic.‘Highlands’©1999Spe- cialRiderMusic.‘VisionsofJohanna’,©1966,DwarfMusic, renewed 1994 Dwarf Music. ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’, © 1965 Warner Chappell, renewed 1993 Special RiderMusic.‘GuessI’mDoin’Fine’,©1964,renewed1992 Special Rider Music. ‘Motorpsycho Nitemare’, © 1964; renewed1992SpecialRiderMusic.‘LikeARollingStone’,© 1965WarnerChappell,renewed1993SpecialRiderMusic. ‘ManintheLongBlackCoat’,©1989SpecialRiderMusic. ‘Lenny Bruce’, © 1981 Special Rider Music. ‘Love Minus Zero/NoLimit’,©WarnerBrosInc.,renewed1993bySpe- cialRiderMusic.‘ChangingoftheGuards’,©1978Special Rider Music. ‘Sweetheart Like You’, © 1983 Special Rider Music. ‘MixedUpConfusion’,©1962, renewed1990 Spe- cial Rider Music. ‘Maggie’s Farm’, © 1965, renewed 1993 SpecialRiderMusic.‘LoveSick’©SpecialRiderMusic1997. ‘Trying to Get to Heaven’, © 1997 Special Rider Music. ‘Highlands’, © 1997 Special Rider Music. Talkin’ World War Three Blues’, © 1963, renewed 1991 Special Rider Music.‘HardRain’sA-GonnaFall’,©1963, renewed1991 SpecialRiderMusic.‘ChimesofFreedom’,©1964,renewed 1992SpecialRiderMusic.‘GatesofEden’,©1965,Warner BrosInc.,renewed1993bySpecialRiderMusic.‘It’sAlright Ma(I’mOnlyBleeding)’©1965,WarnerBrosInc.,renewed 1993bySpecialRiderMusic.‘IDreamedISawSt.Augus- tine’,©1968,renewed1996DwarfMusic.‘BalladofaThin Man’, © 1965, renewed 1993 Special Rider Music. ‘Mixed UpConfusion’,©1962,renewed1990SpecialRiderMusic. ‘IandI’,©1983SpecialRiderMusic.‘StandingintheDoor- way’,©1997SpecialRiderMusic.‘WhereAreYouTonight? (JourneyThroughDarkHeat)’,©1978SpecialRiderMusic. ‘LennyBruce’,©1981SpecialRiderMusic.‘Dirge’,©1973 Ram’s Horn Music. ‘Highlands’, © 1999 Special Rider vi The Political Art of Bob Dylan Music. ‘Wiggle, Wiggle’, © 1999 Special Rider Music. ‘PeggyDay’,©1969;renewed1997DwarfMusic.‘JustLike A Woman’, © 1966, Dwarf Music, renewed 1994 Dwarf Music.‘You’reGonnaMakeMeLonesomeWhenYouGo’, © 1974 and 1975 by Ram’s Horn Music. ‘Just Like A Woman’, © 1966, Dwarf Music. ‘Let Me Die in My Foot- steps’©1965byWarnerBrothersInc.,renewed1991bySpe- cial Rider Music. ‘North Country Blues’, © 1963, 1964 by WarnerBrosInc.,renewed1991SpecialRiderMusic.‘Play- boys and Playgirls’, © 1964, 1966 Warner Bros, renewed 1992 Special Rider Music. ‘Hard Rain’s A’Gonna Fall’, © 1963,renewed1991SpecialRiderMusic.‘MyBackPages’,© 1964byWarnerBrosMusicInc.‘It’sAl’RightMa(I’mOnly Bleeding)’,©1964byWarnerBrosInc.,renewed1992Spe- cialRiderMusic.TombstoneBlues’,©1965,renewed1993 SpecialRiderMusic.‘Tryin’togettoheaven’©1997Special Rider Music. ‘Standing in the Doorway’ © 1997 Special Rider Music. ‘Highlands’ © 1997 Special Rider Music. ‘ThingsHaveChanged’©1999 Special Rider Music.‘TilI FellinLovewithYou’©1997SpecialRiderMusic.‘Missis- sippi’©1997SpecialRiderMusic.‘Can’tWait’©1997Spe- cialRiderMusic.‘ByeandBye’©2006SpecialRiderMusic. ‘SummerDays’©2001SpecialRiderMusic.‘SugarBaby’© 2001SpecialRiderMusic.‘Workingman’sBlues#2’©2006 Special Rider Music. ‘Ain’t Talkin’ © 2006 Special Rider Music. ‘The Levee’s Gonna Break’© 2006 Special Rider Music.‘NotDarkYet’©1997SpecialRiderMusicAllrights reserved. International copyright © secured. Reprinted by permission. DavidBoucherandGaryBrowning Notes on the Contributors DavidBoucherisProfessorial FellowandAssistantHead of School, Research, School of European Studies, Cardiff University. He is Adjunct Professor of International Rela- tionsatTheUniversityoftheSunshineCoast,andDirector oftheCollingwoodandBritishIdealismCentreatCardiff. HismostrecentbooksareTheoriesofInternationalRelations from Thucydides to the Present (1998), British Idealism and PoliticalTheory(withAndrewVincent,2001)andDylanand Cohen:PoetsofRockandRoll(2004).Hisrecenteditedbooks includePoliticalThinkers(withPaulKelly,2003),TheScottish Idealists(2004) andThePhilosophyofEnchantment, byR.G. Collingwood(withPhilipSmallwoodandWendyJames). ElizabethBrakeisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatthe University of Calgary. She has been Visiting Researcher, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University and Visiting Researcher, Murphy Institute, Tulane University. She has published articles in the areas of Ethics, Political Philosophy,FeministPhilosophyandPhilosophyandLit- erature.ShecontributedachaptertoDylanandPhilosophy, ed.PeterVernezzeandCarlPorter(2006). Chris Brown is Professor of International Relations at the LondonSchoolofEconomics.Hehaspublishedwidelyon International Political Theory/International Ethics; ethics and warfare; justice and international relations; ethics, moralityandforeignpolicy;humanrights.Amonghispub- viii The Political Art of Bob Dylan lications are Understanding International Relations (with K. Ainsley, 3rd edition, 2005), Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: InternationalPoliticalTheoryToday(2002),InternationalRela- tions:NewNormativeApproaches(1992).Hehasedited,Inter- national relations in political thought: Texts in international relations from the ancient Greeks to the first world war (with TerryNardinandRengger,2002). Richard Brown is Reader in Modern Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds. He is the author of James Joyce: A Post-culturalist Perspective (1992), foundingco-editoroftheJamesJoyceBroadsheet,andwasa contributortoDo YouMr. Jones?, a collection of essays on DylaneditedbyNeilCorcoran(2003). Gary Browning is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University.HeistheauthorofPlatoandHegel:TwoModesof Philosophising about Politics (1991), Hegel and the History of PoliticalPhilosophy(1999),LyotardandtheEndofGrandNarra- tives (2000), and Rethinking R. G. Collingwood: Philosophy, Politics and the Unity of Theory and Practice (2004). He has co-editedandco-writtenotherworksincludingUnderstand- ing Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present (2000) and Critical and Post-Critical Political Economy (2006). He is co-editor of the journal, Contemporary Political Theory (PalgraveMacmillan). AndrewGambleisProfessorofPoliticsattheUniversityof Cambridge. His books include The Free Economy and the Strong State (1988), Politics and Fate (2000) and Between EuropeandAmerica:TheFutureofBritishPolitics(2003).Heis currently working on a new book on the politics of the globalfinancialcrisis. MichaelJonesiscoursedirectorfortheMAinMusicIndus- tryStudiesattheInstituteofPopularMusic,theUniversity ofLiverpool.Hisinterestinthemusicindustrywasfocused byhismembershipoftheactLatinQuarter.Bestknownfor Notes on the Contributors ix theirhitsingle‘RadioAfrica’in1986,LatinQuarterreleased atotalofsevenalbumsbetween1985and1997. Lawrence Wilde is Professor of Political Theory at The NottinghamTrentUniversity.HeistheauthorofMarxand Contradiction(1989),ModernEuropeanSocialism(1994),Ethi- cal Marxism and its Radical Critics (1998), and Erich Fromm andtheQuestforSolidarity(2004).
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