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Bob Dylan: American Poet

The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Dob
Posts: 2
Posted: 10.19.09, 10:05 AM
Seriously, why didn't you get some other artist to do the first performance. You could have grabbed from the hip-hop, trance, techno, death-metal, or any other genre. The listener would have recieved the same experience - the "feeling" that someone has defecated on the music they love. To be positive; John didn't go the Rolling Stones style symphony orchestra route; but his composition was painful.

Dylan is music for the masses. How does that performance bring music to masses?

Why didn't they grab some people from other cultures to do this. I bet they would have actually heard a Dylan tune in their lifetime and actually do a better job interpreting it their own way.

The final performance by Howard Fishmann was good.
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graham Everett
Posts: 1
Posted: 10.27.09, 05:04 PM
Interesting, though there is some loss here and some gain...I'll continue to listen to the original with this new experience somewhere in my mind, I'm sure.
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HerbFellow
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Posted: 12.03.09, 09:55 AM
I enjoyed the Mr. Tambourine Man. It was as if it was arranged by the late Frank Zappa. I too would have liked to hear the songs performed by other genres.
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jeromekerngarcia
Posts: 3
Posted: 12.05.09, 09:40 PM
John, your interpretation of "Hey Mr. Tambourine Man" lyrics into music demonstrates either a complete insensitivity to the feeling of the poetry; or you purposefully tried to inject the opposite feeling.

You turned 'Blowin' in the Wind' into some pseudo-'Porgy&Bess' styled melody & rhythm - not too bad
I guess, at least it indicates you have some sensitivity to the feeling for the poetry. A similar comment applies to "Chimes of Freedom" and "Forever Young".

Overall, I give you a "T" for tedious. Given the post-modern / deconstructionist aesthetic prevalent in the pseudo-intellectual "art" world today, you probably consider that a complement.

It was not intended as such.
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DesDownUnder
Posts: 5
Posted: 01.11.10, 01:50 PM
At times the performances are reminiscent of a Hoffnug Festival.
But overall one would have to ask, "who died?" because it seems like someone is decomposing perfectly good songs. Not a good way to encourage young people to listen to music.

I'm sorry if this seems to be unkind criticism, but then again I found the performances disagreeable if not down right offensive.
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