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In his first book of new writing since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, Bob Dylan offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music through a series of essays that double as meditations and reflections on the human condition.
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Este libro incluye más de sesenta ensayos centrados en canciones de otros artistas, que van desde Stephen Foster hasta Elvis Costello, pasando por Hank Williams o Nina Simone. Dylan analiza lo que llama la trampa de las rimas fáciles, desglosa la forma en que una sola sílaba puede malograr una canción e incluso explica la relación entre el bluegrass y el heavy metal.
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America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, this book brings together the nation's many voices. From the...
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