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"Dylan’s songs — driven by his distinctive nasal-twang vocals — are often seen as dense prose poems packed with flamboyant, surreal images. Rolling Stone magazine once called him “the most influential American musician rock and roll has ever produced.”
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Tom Waits for next year's prize?
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10-13-2016, 12:50 PM | #33 |
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Paul Simon is a much better poet than Waits and today is his birthday! Woo-Hoo!
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monkey likes this poem by Dylan
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By far one of my favorites!!
Just found this from BBC with lots of examples of his words. It clearly shows why he is deserving of this award! "How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind BLOWIN' IN THE WIND, 1962 ..." http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37646293 |
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I wrote this elsewhere, but I may as well post it here too.
Interesting and out of the box choice, but I have to agree with the Nobel Committee bringing up the rich tradition of poetry being an oral (and aural) art from antiquity. We no longer listen to Homer and Sappho and hear Beowulf sung to us, but we still read them. It's a choice that must have been helped along by the equally rich Swedish (or actually, Nordic) history of having a very blurred line between what is a song and what is a poem. From the Viking-era skalds, the poetic sagas like the Eddas, through post-Viking royal chroniclers who kept records of the early Swedish Kings in poetic form through the 11th to 13th centuries,Bellman in the 1700's (often set to music right through the current day), all the way to artists such as Cornelis Vreeswijk, more or less a contemporary of Dylan's, or Lars Winnberbäck producing bitter and barbed social commentary in poetry-masquerading-as-pop-song. Or from another tack, pop band Mando Diao having a monster summer hit in Sweden a couple of years ago by setting a 100 year old poem by beloved Swedish Poet Gustav Fröding to music. So yeah, a surprising and unexpected choice, but a very very Swedish one. (I would provide you YouTube links for all the above, but... they're all in Swedish) Last edited by Krazykiwi; 10-13-2016 at 01:07 PM. Reason: formatting |
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I loved the Battlestar Galactica usage of that last one. Brilliant move by the writers!
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I have to say I am some what surprised that the award went to a musician like Dylan. Has a wall been breached here though? I'd suggest not. I've been working for a few years now on a long term project of of reading at least one work by every winner for the Nobel Prize for Literature since such awards begin in 1901. There have been in my opinion some very questionable choices made in the selection of people who received the award. Certainly at times much more so than Bob Dylan.
Here's a case in point. Because of an article on another subject I was justreminded of the winner for the year 1909, Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf. One of her most notable works, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (the book I read), was really just a children's story, and really not a very notable one. Just to put that into perspective some other living authors that could have been considered for the 1909 prize include Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] and Leo Tolstoy. My opinion based on the 60 Nobel winning authors I've managed to read at least one work by (generally choosing one that is considered one of the author's important words) is that the quality of winners in terms of literary merit has always been a mixed bag. So anyway Dylan is the 2016 prize winner. Makes it easy for me to cross his name off as read. I'll even listen to my Bringing It All Back Home CD this afternoon to confirm. BTW my two favorite Dylan songs would be Subterranean Homesick Blues and Like a Rolling Stone. |
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Visions of Johanna, certainly close to the top of the heap, musically as well as lyrically:
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My favourite lyrics are from I Want You.
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