I SHALL BE FREE NO.10

     "The book divides Dylan’s song philosophy into six stages in order to capture the different dimensions of his explorations of the world: the early political-social phase; the opening up of popular music for the advanced art of modernity; the expansion of his work to include a multitude of connectable traditions; the turn toward religion and transcendence; after the awakening, the descent into disorientation and crisis. As the final stage of his odyssey in search of meaning, truth, and redemption, one can understand the great late work, in which the end-times pilgrim takes stock. In the epilogue of this concise volume, Dylan’s philosophy of the modern song is understood as a special mode of another, “wild” form of thinking that remains relevant in the 21st century—as an indispensable corrective.
      All stages of Dylan’s songwriting are united by the attempt at liberation. For him, freedom—drawing on a conceptual pattern from Hegel—is first and always negative freedom, never a state but a continual struggle".

   - BOB DYLANS SONGPHILOSOPHIE, (Bob Dylan’s Song Philosophy), by Rüdiger Dannemann, Bertz+Fischer 2026, approx. 120 pages, approx. 30 photos. Paperback, thread-stitched, 12 × 17 cm. This is volume 1 of the series Dylanology (Texte und Materialien zum Gesamtkunstwerk Bob Dylan). ISBN 9783865053510.

Thank you to Dieter Bertz for this item. [1225]