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Dylan: A Commemoration
No full textDylan: A Commemoration. Edited by Stephen Pickering. California, 1971. Philosophical musings of an early Dylan enthusiast. This rare publication explores the author\u27s appreciation for Dylan as the greatest poet of the century, and rejects the rationalist distortions of rock magazines. Released the same year as Tarantula, it hails the work as scintillating and brilliant.https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/dylan_popular_culture_response/1000/thumbnail.jp
Bob Dylan and religion
Get PDFThis article, which is located within the field of research on religion and popular culture, is a discussion of the relations of one particular rock artist, Bob Dylan, to religion. Religion can be seen as a recurring topic in Dylan’s work—particularly during a period at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s, often referred to as his ‘Christian era’—and also in the discourses around him. This article explores how the topic of religion appears in discourses around Bob Dylan. In this article one particular aspect of the connection between religion and popular culture is looked at: the construction of certain artists or stars as religious figures, and more specifically Bob Dylan as a case. The author does not try to discover whether Dylan is religious or not; or which religion he possibly adheres to. Rather, the author looks at how rock artists and in this case Bob Dylan are ‘constructed’ as religious figures
Bob Dylan and religion
No full textThis article, which is located within the field of research on religion and popular culture, is a discussion of the relations of one particular rock artist, Bob Dylan, to religion. Religion can be seen as a recurring topic in Dylan’s work—particularly during a period at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s, often referred to as his ‘Christian era’—and also in the discourses around him. This article explores how the topic of religion appears in discourses around Bob Dylan. In this article one particular aspect of the connection between religion and popular culture is looked at: the construction of certain artists or stars as religious figures, and more specifically Bob Dylan as a case. The author does not try to discover whether Dylan is religious or not; or which religion he possibly adheres to. Rather, the author looks at how rock artists and in this case Bob Dylan are ‘constructed’ as religious figures.
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Get PDFThe Indonesian poet and public figure Goenawan Mohamad published "Bob Dylan" in the magazine Tempo and it was also published in the English version of Tempo. Reprinted by permission of the author Goenawan Mohamad and the translator Jennifer Lindsay
Gratitude as a practice to manage uncertainty and foster well being
Get PDFDylan Le Roy is a Student Affairs and Services Counsellor at Douglas College. He provided a much-needed “Managing Uncertainty with Gratitude” session for the Better Together Conference.
The campus community and the world are experiencing a large amount of uncertainty and change. Dylan Le Roy discusses how this increase in uncertainty may have impacted our sense of wellbeing. Through an experiential practice, participants explore how grounding in gratitude can help foster a greater sense of resiliency, creativity, and connection.presentationBetter Together Conferenc
Dylan to English Dictionary
No full textDylan to English Dictionary, by A.J. Weberman. New York, 2005.
This curious resource would seem, at first glance, to be a basic reference work treating Dylan\u27s lyrics to some form of translation. One only needs to read the very first paragraph of this work to learn that its author was deeply obsessed with Dylan, and through various experiences on LSD came to believe he could interpret hidden meaning in all of Dylan\u27s lyrics. He also credits himself for coining the term Dylanology.https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/dylan_academic_interpretations/1001/thumbnail.jp
Bob Dylan and American Folk Music: The Pigeonhole Effect
Get PDFThis article tracks Bob Dylan\u27s early musical career and his relation to the American Folk music movement of the late 1950s into the early 1960s. The author grapples with the question of why Bob Dylan went electric and explores some of the stories around the seminal event in American Folk Music history. The author mainly uses Bob Dylan\u27s personal interviews and songs to draw conclusions
Growth:Visualisation of predictive mathematical models using 3D computer graphics and animation
Get PDF‘Growth’ is a short film created as a result of a multidisciplinary collaboration between artists and scientists from the University of Dundee. The author worked with mathematicians to investigate how techniques and technologies used in 3D computer animation and visual effects industries might support the enhanced visualisation of predictive mathematical modelling of solid tumour growth. This paper will discuss the practical and artistic processes of this visualisation research, including the technical innovations required in undertaking this work – such as the creation of custom tools for ‘reading’ data, or the addition of stereoscopic output. By transforming numerical data into three-dimensional ‘objects’, artists can provide new ways of ‘seeing’ information and identifying patterns or results. Developing visualisation techniques can be used to improve the communication of cancer growth to patients (by increasing patient understanding and relieving their fears) through the use of new and innovative visual material.<br/
Murder Most Foul. Storia, memoria e mito nella produzione tarda di Bob Dylan
Get PDFWhile many of Dylan's songs became historic anthems of the civil rights movement, their author never misses a chance to remind us that his interest in historical events lies in the possibility of turning them into metahistorical tales. In Chronicles (2004), he writes: "The madly complicated modern world was something I took little interest in. It had no relevancy, no weight. What was up to date for me was stuff like the Titanic sinking, the Galveston flood, John Henry driving steel, John Hardy shooting a man on the West Virginia line. This was the news that I considered".
However, in Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan taps into contemporary history more than in any other album, clearly stating his intent in "Mother of Muses": "I'm falling in love with Calliope | She don't belong to anyone, why not give her to me?". By invoking such an elitist relationship with the muse of epic poetry, Dylan begins a raging reflection on the meaning of time, history, and memory that culminates in a seventeen-minute track about Kennedy's assassination. References to facts, people, films, and songs from different places and times merge into masterpieces that, reliving memories, reshape history. The present paper examines these themes and mechanics and the labile boundary between memory and history, between written and oral cultures, in the 2016 Nobel laureate's late narrative songs
Beneath the Waves and Beyond the Screen:Visualising Subsea Survey Data in Three Dimensions
Get PDFHigh-resolution subsea survey data offers a new ability to explore difficult or hazardous environments, and using multi-beam sonar, provides three-dimensional bathymetric data for visualisation. However, this data represents three-dimensional structures and locations that exist in physical space, and yet we commonly limit ourselves to viewing them in a static and two-dimensional screen-based format. Are we getting the most out of this data? Are computers, the very devices that have enabled us to “see” these objects, limiting our ability to interact with and interrogate the rich data being gathered? The author has conducted a series of workshops focused on evaluating the ‘data lifecycle’, in an attempt to improve our understanding of the communicative value of different visualisation techniques. By exploring methods of visualising subsea survey data in new, interesting, and challenging ways we can improve our understanding of the underlying data, challenge our preconceived ideas on what it might be telling us, and encourage interactivity in ways that simply wasn’t possible before.<br/
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