The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan's Live Performances

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Introduction: The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan's Live Performances - Erin C. Callahan and Court Carney



Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Implications of the Past: A Case Study - Court Carney



"Might as Well Just Stay Up Here": Bob Dylan's Pivotal Performance at Montreal's Finjan Club in 1962 - Simon McAslan



I'm Ready to Go Anywhere: Bob Dylan's Propulsive Vector of Engagement with Audiences, 1964-1966 - Keith Nainby and John Radosta



"Hurricane" and Bob Dylan's Protest Music Renaissance on the Rolling Thunder Tour - Skye Landgraf



Reaching for the Nashville Skyline: Bob Dylan's Country Music Connections and Lasting Impact on the Emerging 1970s Country-Rock Movement - McKenzie L. Isom



The Rolling Thunder Revue's Critical Bicentennial Nostalgia - Jason Tebbe



"All the World's a Stage": Bob Dylan's Spontaneous Performativity in Martin Scorsese's Rolling Thunder Revue (2019) and NBC's Hard Rain (1976) - Sara Martinez



The Warfield Cycle: Dylan's Mystery Plays, San Francisco, November 1980 - Graley Herren



"Hanging in the balance of the reality of man": Dylan's Artistic Vision of Impermanence, October 1981 - Jim Salvucci



Bob Dylan's Splayed Anthems - Robert Reginio



Bob Dylan's Waste Land: Contemporary Existential Anxieties Reflected in the 2013-2019 Set Lists - Erin C. Callahan



"What's Going On in Your Show:" A look at the Shadow Kingdom setlist - Nina Goss



"Today and Tomorrow and Yesterday Too": Time in Bob Dylan's Work of the 2020s - Laura Tenschert



Encore: The Never-Ending Sonnets: On Bob Dylan's Never-Ending Tour, 1987-1997 - Jeff Fallis



Epilogue: From Angel to Devil, From Lovelorn to Enchantment: Dylan's Setlists in 2022 - Erin C. Callahan and Court Carney

List of Contributors

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