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The same distant places: Bob Dylan's poetics of place and displacement

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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:49 authored by Richard Elliott
This article explores the emphasis in Bob Dylan's work on memory, place, and displacement. It rehearses some key issues raised by recent theorists who have been interested in the connections between these themes before proceeding to discuss tropes of displacement in Dylan's work. Topics covered include the importance of the city and its projection of the rural, the theme of moving on and its association with accumulated experience, and the ability of Dylan continually to reinvent himself. The article closes with a reflection on the album Time Out of Mind as a distillation of themes of place and displacement that can be found throughout Dylan's work and argues that the work presents a poetics of displacement that cannot shed the pull of place and the desire for homely permanence.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Popular Music and Society

ISSN

0300-7766

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

2

Volume

32

Page range

249-270

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  • Music Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-11-08

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2012-11-08

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2012-10-25

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