Free, Stuck, Tangled: Bob Dylan, the ‘Self’ and the Performer's Critical Perspective

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C. P. Lee, Like the Night: Bob Dylan and the Road to Manchester Free Trade Hall (London: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2004), pp. 36–7.

Mike Marqusee, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005), pp. 93–8, pp. 111–13 and pp. 156–61.

Allen Ginsberg, ‘Bob Dylan & Renaldo & Clara’, in Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan, ed. by John Bauldie (New York: Citadel Underground, 1990), pp. 104–24 (p. 122); Robert Hilburn, ‘Interview’, in Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews, ed. by Jonathan Cott (New York: Wenner Books, 2006), pp. 429–38 (p. 431).

Michael Gray, Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan (London: Cassell, 2000), pp. 215–216; Jonathan Cott, ‘Interview’, in Essential Interviews, pp. 171–98 (p. 173).

Aidan Day, Jokerman (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988); Stephen Scobie, Alias Bob Dylan: Revisited (Calgary: Red Deer Press, 2003).

Marqusee, Wicked, p. 160.

Martin Scorsese, No Direction Home (Columbia 03105, 2005), Disc 2, Scene 9 and Disc 2, Scene 3 [DVD].

Scorsese, No Direction Home, Disc 1, Scene 6 and Disc 1, Scene 7 [DVD].

Dylan, ‘I Shall Be Free’, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (Columbia, CH 90321, 1963); Dylan, ‘Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again’, Blonde on Blonde (Columbia, C2H 90325, 1966); Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’, Blood on the Tracks (Columbia, CH 90323, 1974).

Dylan, ‘I Shall Be Free’.

Eric Bulson, ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’, in The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, ed. by Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 125–130; Gray, Song & Dance Man, pp. 1–16.

Dylan, ‘I Shall Be Free’.

Ibid.

Christopher Ricks, Dylan's Visions of Sin (New York: CCC, 2003), p. 150; Dylan, ‘I Shall Be Free’.

Betsy Bowden, Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001), pp. 103–110; Gray, Song & Dance Man, pp. 30–1 and p. 50.

Dylan, ‘I Shall Be Free’; Gray, Song & Dance Man, p. 306.

Scorsese, No Direction Home; Gray, Song & Dance Man, p. 526.

Paul Ricoeur, Oneself as Another (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), pp. 140–68.

Ricks, The Force of Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 366; Betsy Bowden, Performed Literature, pp. 56–7.

Dylan, ‘I Shall Be Free’.

Marqusee, Wicked; Gray, Song & Dance Man; Sean Wilentz, Bob Dylan in America (New York: Doubleday, 2010).

Dylan, ‘Stuck Inside of Mobile’.

Michael Coyle and Debra Rae Cohen, ‘Blonde on Blonde’, in Dettmar, Cambridge Companion, pp. 143–49; Gray, Song & Dance Man, pp. 1–16.

Marqusee, Wicked, pp. 42–43, Gray, Song & Dance Man, pp. 268–379.

Dylan, ‘Stuck Inside of Mobile’.

Ricks, Visions, pp. 31–32.

Gray, Song & Dance Man, p. 5.

Scobie, Alias, p. 97.

Marqusee, Wicked, p. 199.

Ibid., p. 205.

Ibid., p. 206.

Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

Ibid., p. 29.

Dylan, ‘Stuck Inside of Mobile’.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’.

Carrie Brownstein, ‘Blood on the Tracks’, in Dettmar, Cambridge Companion, pp. 155–59; Gray, Song & Dance Man, pp. 1–16 and p. 181.

Bert Cartwright, ‘The Mysterious Norman Raeben’, in Wanted Man, pp. 85–9 (p. 88).

Gray, Song & Dance Man, p. 210; Scobie, Alias, p. 146.

Bowden, Performed, p. 137; Day, Jokerman, pp. 51–70; Gray, Song & Dance Man, p. 181; Scobie, Alias, pp. 157–67.

Gray, Song & Dance Man, p. 181, p. 210; Scobie, Alias, pp. 146–167; Bowden, Performed, p. 137; Day, Jokerman, pp. 51–70.

Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’.

Ibid.

Dylan, ‘From a Buick 6’, Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia, CH 90326, 1965).

Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Day, Jokerman, p. 55.

Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’.

Day, Jokerman, p. 65.

See also Scobie, Alias, p. 49.

See also ibid., p. 148; Gray, Song & Dance Man, p. 182.

Dylan, ‘Girl from the North Country’, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (Columbia, CH 90321, 1963).

Dylan, Nashville Skyline (Columbia, CH 92394, 1969).

Mikal Gilmore, ‘Interview’, in Essential Interviews, pp. 411–28 (p. 416).

Gray, Song & Dance Man, p. 653.

Day, Jokerman, p. 55.

Colleen J. Sheehy, John Barner, and Thomas Swiss, ‘Introduction’, in Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Journey from Minnesota to the World, ed. by Sheehy and Swiss (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), pp. xi-xxiii (pp. xviii-xxi).

Mark Ford, ‘Trust Yourself: Emerson and Dylan’, in Do You, Mr. Jones? Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors, ed. by Neil Corcoran (London: Pimlico, 2003), pp. 127–42 (pp. 134–35).

Bowden, Performed, pp. 56–57; Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’.

Elaine Scarry, Dreaming by the Book (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 22–30.

Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’.

Simon Armitage calls this moment ‘sexual bathos’: Armitage, ‘Rock of Ages’, in Do You, Mr. Jones, pp. 105–126 (p. 120); Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’.

Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’.