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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 ElliottThis 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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Popular Music and SocietyISSN
0300-7766Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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2Volume
32Page range
249-270Department affiliated with
- Music Publications
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2012-11-08First Open Access (FOA) Date
2012-11-08First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2012-10-25Usage metrics
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