Bob+Dylan

Anna W English 10

"Bob Dylan ." __Bob Dylan__. 04 02 2009. 8 Mar 2009 .

This website has tours posted, news, music, photos, just about everything. It has very recent news about Bob Dylan. It also has every song he has ever recorded on the website that you can listen to. There are pictures on the website of him recently, and of him from the sixties. There is also a link on the website that you can click on and go to his art page where his paintings are. This website is very helpful for this assignment and for just about anything else Bob Dylan related. It really helped with this project because it talks about recent things he is doing, including touring. I think it shows how dedicated to his music he is by touring now, even though he is really old.

Bostridge, Ian. "CLASSICAL MUSIC: It's all right, Ma, I'm only singing...." __The Independent. London (UK)__ 29 09 2003: 14. 15.

The author of this article is saying that Bob Dylan’s music isn’t beautiful vocally, but it is beautiful and important for many other reasons. For example, he uses different colors in his voice, and his music has multi-layered lyrics. This article helped me with this project because it talks about Bob Dylan’s attitude behind the music, how he only cared about music, while image meant nothing. It also makes it very clear that Bob Dylan’s music is different than other artists because his music is more about making you think with his lyrics than having a pretty voice.  Cocks, Jay. "Bob Dylan ." __www.time.com__. 8 6 1998. Time. 8 Mar 2009 .  This Website is summarizing Bob Dylan’s life in four short pages. It talks about him when he was a kid, when he first started music, and his newer music. This was really interesting, it tells you about where Bob Dylan was born, where he went to school, how he got in to music, and a lot of other things. I think it helps support me saying he is a role model because it talks about how even after he was booed off the stage and forgotten about for a while he kept making music, and came back better than before.

Haitt, Brian. "Artists Lend Voices to Obama Campaign." __Rolling Stone__ 7 10 2008: 15-16.

This article talks about musicians who were involved in the presidential campaign. There were many artists supporting Obama, including Billie Joe Armstrong, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Bob Dylan, and many others. It talks about what Bob Dylan said about Obama, and how it must mean something, because Bob Dylan doesn’t make direct political comments very often. When reading this article, I found out how Bob Dylan cares about who the president is, and wants change for America, which is something I wouldn’t have guessed about him. Him trying to change something, instead of sitting back and complaining is really cool, and this article points out how he did try to make a change by speaking for Obama.

Hewson, Paul (Bono). "BOB DYLAN (Cover story)." __Rolling Stone__ 27 11 2008: 80.

This article tells about how Bob Dylan became such an influence on artists from the 80’s until artists today. The way he got so great wasn’t by singing like everyone else, it was by breaking the social barriers and doing it his own way. There are many reasons in this reading on why so many people are influenced by Bob Dylan, and why I would call him a role model. One reason is he focused more on being true, than being like everyone else. Another reason is he changed popular singing by being himself.  Martin, Patricia. "Chapter Two: from folk to rock."  This is a biography about Bob Dylan, and his music. This biography basically summarizes Bob Dylan’s life, but unlike most of the other ones, it talks more about his music, and his fame in music than anything else. It talks about which albums are under which labels, and when they were all published. I think this biography is interesting because it’s kind of a music biography rather than a person biography. It helps support that Bob Dylan is a role model because it talks about the change he made in folk music and in rock music.  O'Hagan, Sean. "Weekend: ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO." __The Guardian. London (UK)__ 26 08 2000: 20. This article informs the reader about Bob Dylan’s life, while it offers opinions about his music and lifestyle. It sort of walks you through the rise of his music. It also shares moments in his life that aren’t so publicized, like the year after his motorcycle accident. I thought this article showed great examples of why I call Bob Dylan a role model. One is he did more then changed music, he changed the way people looked at the world. It walks you through events and moments that made him remembered so well today.  "Protest songs have always been integral part of recorded music." __Daily Sentinel. Grand Junction, Colo.__ 21 04 2008: 2. This article is mainly about protest music, and the creators/performers of it. It talks about Bob Dylan’s influence on protest music, and where it came from. I think this article points out another important reason as why Bob Dylan is considered a role model. Which is, by playing protest music he stood up for what he believed in and faced the consequences.

Simpson, Martha. "Forever Young." __School Library Journal__ 2008: 130. This article is a review of a children’s book written by Bob Dylan, the words in the book are the lyrics from his song “Forever Young”, and the book is also called __Forever Young__. When read by children the book seems like a blessing a older man is saying to a child. The illustrations in the book show pictures to go with the words, the drawings are of the sixties and life in the sixties. This review of his book shows Bob Dylan is a good role model because it explains the drawings and lyrics of his book and song. Two of the illustrations it talks about are: a Caucasian boy becoming friends with an African-American boy, and those two boys participating in peace rallies.