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    Dylan: A Commemoration

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    Dylan: 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

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    This 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

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    This 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.

    Gratitude as a practice to manage uncertainty and foster well being

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    Dylan 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

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    Dylan 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

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    This 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

    From English to Romanian: Bob Dylan translated by Mircea Cartarescu

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    openQuesta tesi di laurea magistrale si concentra sull'analisi della traduzione ‒ dall'inglese al romeno ‒ del testo del brano A hard rain's a-gonna fall di Bob Dylan, tratta dal libro "Bob Dylan, Suflare în vânt: 100 de poeme traduse de Mircea Cărtărescu", che contiene una selezione di cento testi di canzoni di Dylan - o poesie, come l'autore rumeno, come molti altri, li qualifica giustamente - tradotti da Mircea Cărtărescu, egli stesso scrittore di poesia e prosa. Per quanto riguarda l'approccio, questo studio non si basa su alcuna teoria della traduzione ‒ spesso inutilmente complicata ‒ ma è condotto, piuttosto, empiricamente sulla base di principi linguistici e stilistici, seguendo minuziosamente il testo della canzone, dal primo all'ultimo verso, in quello che potrebbe essere chiamato un approccio verticale.This master dissertation focuses on analyzing the translation ‒ from English into Romanian ‒ of Bob Dylan’s lyrics of the song A hard rain’s a-gonna fall, drawn from the book titled Bob Dylan, Suflare în vânt: 100 de poeme traduse de Mircea Cărtărescu , which contains a selection of one hundred Dylan song lyrics – or poems, as the Romanian author, as many others, rightfully qualifies them – translated by Mircea Cărtărescu, himself a writer of both poetry and prose. Regarding the approach, this study does not rely on any theory of translation ‒ which are often unnecessarily complicated ‒ but it is rather conducted empirically on the basis of linguistic and stylistic principles, following the song text in minute detail, from the first to the last line of verse, in what could be called a vertical approach

    Murder Most Foul. Storia, memoria e mito nella produzione tarda di Bob Dylan

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    While 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

    Phya and vfoley, physically motivated audio for virtual environments

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    Phya is an open source C++ library that facilitates physically motivated audio in virtual environments. A review is presented and recent developments in the context of game audio, including the launch of VFoley, a project using Phya as the basis for a fully fledged virtual sound design environment. This will enable sound designers to rapidly produce rich Foley content from within a virtual environment, and author enhanced objects for use by Phya enabled applications
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