DYLAN'S INFLUENCES & CONTEMPORARIES
Beats
"It was Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac who inspired me at first."
-- Bob Dylan 1978 --
- Bradshaw, Steve: Cafe Society; Bohemian Life from Swift to Bob Dylan
- Charters, Ann: The Portable Beat Reader
- Guilbert, Jean-Claude: Bob Dylan et La Beat Generation
- Miles, Barry: Ginsberg, A Biography
- Rodenberg, Hans-Peter: Subversive Phantasie: Untersuchungen zur Lyrik der amerikanischen Gegenkultur 1960-1975
- Other website: Beat Bibliography: Sherri's large (33K) listing of books, magazines, and more.
- Other website: Books on Beats: Levi Asher's commentary on a much shorter selection of books.
- Other website: Literary Kicks: Asher's excellent encyclopedia of the Beat Generation, with lots about Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs et al, with many mentions of Dylan.
Civil Rights
"I might have been a protest singer, but I've never been into politics."
-- Bob Dylan 1984 --
Folk Music
"There was a clique, you know.
Folk music was a strict and rigid establishment."
-- Bob Dylan 1985 --
- Bauldie, John: Telegraph 24-25: Hard Times in New York Town, Bob Dylan in New York, January-April 1961
- Collins, Judy: Trust Your Heart
- Denisoff, R. Serge: Great Day Coming: Folk Music and the American Left
- Eliot, Marc: Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs
- Ewen, David: Great Men of American Popular Song, 1970
- Ewen, David: Great Men of American Popular Song, 1972
- Farina, Richard: Long time Coming and Long Time Gone
- Guthrie, Woody: Bound for Glory
- Guthrie, Woody: Pastures of Plenty: A Self-Portrait
- Hampton, Wayne: Guerrilla minstrels: John Lennon, Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan
- Gross, Michael: Bob Dylan: An Illustrated History
- Hood, Phil: Artists of American Folk Music: The Legends of Traditional Folk, the Stars of the Sixties, the Virtuosi of New Acoustic Music
- Klein, Joe: Woody Guthrie, A Life
- Lee, C P: Like the Night: Bob Dylan and the Road to the Manchester Free Trade Hall
- Ribakove, Sy: Folk-Rock: the Bob Dylan story
- Schmidt, Eric von: Baby Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years
- Schmidt, Mathias R: Bob Dylans message songs der Sechziger Jahre: und die anglo-amerikanische Tradition des sozialkritischen Liedes
- Wissolik, Richard David: Bob Dylan, American Poet and Singer
- Woliver, Robbie: Bringing It All Back Home
- Woliver, Robbie: Hoot! A 25-Year History of the Greenwich Village Music Scene
- Other website: FolkBook Index: an index to Web resources on Folk music.
- Other website: Greenwich Village: then and now.
Music Business
"You can only make the records as good as you can
and hope they sell."
-- Bob Dylan 1990 --
- Davis, Clive: Clive: Inside the Record Business
- Draper, Robert: Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History
- Ewen, David: Great Men of American Popular Song, 1970
- Ewen, David: Great Men of American Popular Song, 1972
- Field, Kim: Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers: The Evolution of the People's Instrument
- Flanagan, Bill: Written in My Soul: Rock's Great Songwriters Talk About Creating their Music
- Hammond, John: John Hammond on Record: An Autobiography
- Helm, Levon: This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band
- Heylin, Clinton: Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry
- Heylin, Clinton: The Penguin Book of Rock & Roll Writing
- Hoskyns, Barney: Across the Great Divide: The Band and America
- Smith, Joe: Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music
Religion
"I see creation just about everywhere.
The highest form of song is prayer."
-- Bob Dylan 1976 --
- Bauldie, John: Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan
- Cartwright, Bert: The Bible in the Lyrics of Bob Dylan
- Heylin, Clinton: Saved! The Gospel Speeches of Bob Dylan
- Jansen, Gerhard: Pressing On
- Jansen, Gerhard: Shot of Love
- Jansen, Gerhard: Slow Train Coming
- Noebel, Rev. David A: The Marxist Minstrels: A Handbook on Communist Subversion of Music
- Noebel, Rev. David A: Rhythm, Riots and Revolution: The Communist Music Master Plan
- Pickering, Stephen: Bob Dylan Approximately: A Portrait of the Jewish Poet in Search of God
- Pickering, Stephen: Praxis One: Existence, Men and Realities
- Thomson, Elizabeth M: Conclusions on the Wall: New Essays on Bob Dylan
- Williams, Don: Bob Dylan: the Man, the Music, the Message
- Williams, Paul: Dylan---- What Happened?
- Other website: Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Jews; Larry Yudelson's award winner
- Other website: Slow Train Coming: EDLIS Dylan and Christianity home page, including a short bibliography
with William Parr's review of books on the subject.
Sixties
"... a flying saucer landed... that's what the 60s were like.
Everybody heard about it, but only a few really saw it."
-- Bob Dylan --
- Damsker, Matt: Rock Voices: The Best Lyrics of an Era
- Eisen, Jonathan: The Age of Rock 2: Sights and Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution
- Farina, Richard: Long time Coming and Long Time Gone
- Pollock, Bruce: When the Music Mattered: Rock in the 1960's
- Schmidt, Mathias R: Bob Dylans message songs der Sechziger Jahre: und die anglo-amerikanische Tradition des sozialkritischen Liedes
- Schmidt, Mathias R: Bob Dylan und die Sechziger Jahre: Aufbruch und Abkehr
- Turner, Florence: At the Chelsea: A Personal Memoir of New York's Most Famous Hotel
- Williams, Paul: Outlaw Blues
- Wissolik, Richard David: Bob Dylan, American Poet and Singer
- Other website: Both Sides of Bob Dylan: Public Memory, the Sixties, and the Politics of Meaning; Tikkun, Jul/Aug 1995
- Other website: The Concise Bibliography of the Haight Ashbury
- Other website: The Sixties Page; with lots of sixties related links
- Other website: Who's Who of the Haight-Ashbury Era
- Other website: 60's Haight Scene; all about the Diggers
Specific People
"Oh, ev'ry thought that's strung a knot in my mind,
I might go insane if it couldn't be sprung.
But it's not to stand naked under unknowin' eyes,
It's for myself and my friends my stories are sung."
-- Bob Dylan 1964 --
- Baez, Joan: And a Voice to Sing With
- Balfour, Victoria: Rock Wives: The Hard Lives and Good Times of the Wives, Girlfriends, and Groupies of Rock and Roll
- Cesar, Ligia Vieira: Poesia e Politica nas Cancoes de Bob Dylan e Chico Buarque
- Collins, Judy: Trust Your Heart
- Davis, Clive: Clive: Inside the Record Business
- Eliot, Marc: Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs
- Guthrie, Woody: Bound for Glory
- Guthrie, Woody: Pastures of Plenty: A Self-Portrait
- Hammond, John: John Hammond on Record: An Autobiography
- Helm, Levon: This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band
- Hoskyns, Barney: Across the Great Divide: The Band and America
- Jackson, Blair: Goin' Down the Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion
- Klein, Joe: Woody Guthrie, A Life
- Miles, Barry: Ginsberg, A Biography
- Other website: The Band: unofficial home on the web
- Other website: Leonard Cohen home page
- Other website: Friends Along the Way: links to websites about Dylan contemporaries.
- Other website: Allen Ginsberg: at Literary Kicks website
- Other website: Bibliography for the Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics Project
- Other website: The Concise Bibliography of the Grateful Dead
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