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Dylan And The Last Love Song Of The American Left, John M. Facciola
Dylan And The Last Love Song Of The American Left, John M. Facciola
Fordham Urban Law Journal
The reminiscences of an old man who had the joy of being a New York kid when an old American music form was transformed by the extraordinary efforts of a group of musicians who saw a new creative force that they thought could cause revolutionary social change. This article examines the impact of the friendship between Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie on folk music and describes the political consciousness of the music.
Bob Dylan On Lenny Bruce: More Of An Outlaw Than You Ever Were, Louise Harmon
Bob Dylan On Lenny Bruce: More Of An Outlaw Than You Ever Were, Louise Harmon
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Essay seeks to compare and contrast two contemporary performing artists: Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce. Bruce and Dylan both became artists in the middle of twentieth-century America—in the same stew of ideas, myths, and shared assumptions. Both experienced the same winds of change, albeit at different stages of life, in the 1950s and 1960s, the post-World War II Cold War period, the burgeoning civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War. Both responded to these winds of change, and in so doing, transcended and transformed their respective art forms.
Symposium: Bob Dylan And The Law Foreword, Samuel J. Levine
Symposium: Bob Dylan And The Law Foreword, Samuel J. Levine
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Taken together, the articles in this Symposium Issue provide a journey through both Bob Dylan’s career and the American legal landscape. Befitting a legal prophet, Dylan is often critical, skeptical, and cynical, at times uncompromising in his portrayal of the failures of American law and society. The presentations at the Dylan and the Law Symposium reflected, in part, the disappointment and frustration expressed in Dylan’s words and music. Yet, the speakers at the Symposium echoed another side of Bob Dylan’s work: a refusal to surrender or despair in the face of disheartening reality. Instead, drawing upon Dylan’s prophetic dreams and …
The Freewheelin’ Judiciary: A Bob Dylan Anthology, Alex B. Long
The Freewheelin’ Judiciary: A Bob Dylan Anthology, Alex B. Long
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Judges at all levels in the United States judicial system have cited Bob Dylan far more often than any other popular music artist. The logical question then becomes, “why?” Why is Dylan (rather than John Lennon, Woody Guthrie, or some other prominent and sociallyconscious songwriter) the preferred songwriter for judges, and why do judges feel the need to cite Dylan’s lyrics to begin with? What are they hoping to convey to the reader about the legal issue at hand, the legal system in general, or about themselves that causes them to rely on the works of Dylan? What type of …