03 / BEYOND THE SONG

THE CONTEXT.

Where does a song come from?

Enter the songs through tradition, streets and history. Four original essays offer listening paths and leave room for your own discoveries.

Bob Dylan

01 / Folk & blues traditions

A song begins in many voices

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Bob Dylan

02 / Greenwich Village & civil rights

A street-corner song enters history

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Bob Dylan

03 / Going electric

Turn it up. Move the boundary.

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Bob Dylan

04 / Literature & cultural memory

America echoes inside a song

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