Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan

By Aidan Day

Book Overview

Bob Dylan is described as one of the most startling, prolific and controversial contemporary song-writers. This book explores the complexity and subtlety of his lyrics and their themes, seeking to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631158731
• ISBN13: 9780631158738
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Blackwell Science Inc
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The only intelligent book on Dylan's lyrics

Uncompromisingly academic, this short but in-depth study of the notions of identity in Bob Dylan's lyrics would probably be inaccessible for anyone not in possession of an Eng Lit degree. A must for anyone with said degree and a Dylan collection.