“I contain multitudes”: Bob Dylan, a voice in the plural form

In an allusion to Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”, some four years after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan entitled the opening track of his latest album Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020) “I Contain Multitudes”. In doing so, he attempted much more than to consolidate his place within th...

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Päätekijät: Mason, Catharine, Vettorato, Cyril
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Kieli:Anglais
Julkaistu: Cahiers de littérature orale 2024
Linkit:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Yhteenveto:In an allusion to Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”, some four years after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan entitled the opening track of his latest album Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020) “I Contain Multitudes”. In doing so, he attempted much more than to consolidate his place within the American literary canon. Much like the bard of Leaves of Grass, though using different instruments and singing in times in which the quarrels and controversies of the day bestowed an equally impo...