by Bob Dylan · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433910196
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Bob Dylan's first book since 2004, a crucial artistic achievement distilling everything he has learned about his craft since his beginnings in the sixties. This book includes more than sixty essays focused on songs by other artists, from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, passing through Hank Williams and Nina Simone. Dylan analyzes the essence of composition, exploring the trap of easy rhymes and how a single syllable can transform a song. With his unique prose, these essays are both mysterious, sharp, and deeply reflective, offering meditations on the human condition through music. The book is enriched with nearly one hundred and fifty carefully selected photographs and dreamlike texts that contribute to the transcendence of the whole.
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 69-year career. With an estimated 125 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling musicians. Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry". His lyrics incorporated political, social, and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.
