10-13-2016, 07:39 AM | #1 |
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Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Amazing! Well Deserved! Wonderful!
"Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. In doing so, the prolific musician became the first American to win the prize in more than two decades. Not since novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993 has an American claimed the prize. Dylan won the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," according to the citation by the Swedish Academy, the committee that annually decides the recipient of the Nobel Prize. The academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, announced the news Thursday...." http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...-in-literature |
10-13-2016, 08:55 AM | #2 |
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No one saw this coming .... wow!
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10-13-2016, 08:58 AM | #3 |
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Huge Dylan fan here, but, well, I don't know, Pynchon would have deserved it more I think. When it's the next American's turn in 23 years, he'll probably be dead.
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10-13-2016, 09:02 AM | #4 |
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apparently he's been a contender for a while, but yes I don't think anyone expected it.
The Washington Post has a bit more in-depth story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...fae_story.html and CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/13/world/...ze-literature/ |
10-13-2016, 09:06 AM | #5 |
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Yeah, he's been nominated every year for ages. But nobody took it seriously except a few hardcore fans. His betting odds were a lot better in some years than this time around.
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10-13-2016, 09:07 AM | #6 |
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I have no problem with Bob Dylan; and I have no problem them with massaging his "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" into being considered literature. It just seems to me that there was some damn fine straight-up literature (which didn't need to be massaged to fit the category) that probably should have won.
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Let's celebrate with a passionate rendition of one of His Bobness' greatest lyrical masterpieces:
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10-13-2016, 09:35 AM | #8 |
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10-13-2016, 09:52 AM | #9 |
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OK, Wiggle Wiggle has long been a joke among Dylan fans, of course, and I don't think he took it too seriously himself. So to balance that out, here's what I think is probably his greatest song. And yes, now I'm happy he has won that prize!!
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10-13-2016, 10:26 AM | #10 |
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My favorite song: FOREVER YOUNG. (Not complete, due to copyright restrictions.)
May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you .... May you grow up to be righteous May you grow up to be true May you always know the truth And see the lights surrounding you May you always be courageous Stand upright and be strong May you stay forever young .... May your hands always be busy May your feet always be swift May you have a strong foundation When the winds of changes shift May your heart always be joyful And may your song always be sung Written by Bob Dylan • Copyright © Bob Dylan Music Co. Here's my favorite cover, performed by Rod Stewart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9apksOv6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3_RCJ3Szjc Last edited by Dr. Drib; 10-13-2016 at 10:32 AM. |
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10-13-2016, 10:54 AM | #12 |
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I personally think they should keep music and literature separated, but what do you expect from a prize organization named after the inventor of dynamite. But just like most other awards organizations, the awards or the opinions of a very few people. I don't really care who wins a Nobel, Oscar, Grammy, or most any other awards based on the opinions a few people. Other than the Fickle Finger of Fate award, they are all pretty much meaningless IMO.
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I don't understand this decision and think it is a serious downgrading for those authors who have already received the prize. I would have hoped there'd be a distinction between people spending years to write a book and it being literature and someone writing a song. And before everyone get up to stone me, I know how songs are written, having been friends over years or decades with some of the biggest in music ever. Still, there is a difference IMO. |
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