Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances - Hardcover

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen became cultural phenomena in the 1960s as spokesmen for their generation. This book places the writers in the context of the political movements of the time, their religious convictions, the folk revival, the bohemianism of the Beat Generation and the changing cultural and religious patterns that characterized their popularity and ability to adapt by transforming their art. Dylan and Cohen is a political, psychological and artistic profile of these two iconic writers and performers. With reference to both biographical details and lyrics, David Boucher explores their similarities and differences, tracing the development of religious political, and social themes in their work and the ways in which those ideas engaged a new audience. In this completely revised edition, major themes - such as the relationship between poetry and song; the aesthetics of reading a text; the longevity of the performers' careers; and the changing phases of their music - have been rethought in the light of numerous new contexts, including Dylan's Chronicles and Nobel lecture; and the 2016 death of Cohen.

• | Author: David Boucher
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: April 08, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1501345656
• | ISBN-13: 9781501345654