REFERENCE MATERIALS ON DYLAN WORKS
"... there's no end t it an it's so big that
everytime I see it it's like seein for the first."
-- Bob Dylan 1963 --
Bibliographies
"I was eighteen or so when I discovered Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Frank O'Hara and those guys. Then I went back and started reading the French guys, Rimbaud and Francois Villon."
-- Bob Dylan 1985 --
- Primarily bibliographies
- Works containing bibliographies
- Anderson, Dennis: The Hollow Horn: Bob Dylan's Reception in the United States and Germany
- Bowden, Betsy: Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan, 1978
- Bowden, Betsy: Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan, 1982
- Bradshaw, Steve: Cafe Society; Bohemian Life from Swift to Bob Dylan
- Day, Aidan: Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan
- Denisoff, R. Serge: Great Day Coming: Folk Music and the American Left
- Dowley, Tim: Bob Dylan: From a Hard Rain to a Slow Train
- Dunn, Tim: I Just Write 'Em As They Come: An Annotated Guide to the Writings of Bob Dylan
- Hampton, Wayne: Guerrilla minstrels: John Lennon, Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan
- Gross, Michael: Bob Dylan: An Illustrated History
- Heylin, Clinton: Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades: A Biography, UK
- Heylin, Clinton: Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades: A Biography, US
- Humphries, Patrick: Absolutely Dylan
- Humphries, Patrick: Oh No! Not Another Bob Dylan Book
- Mellers, Wilfrid Howard: A Darker Shade of Pale: a Backdrop to Bob Dylan, Faber ed.
- Mellers, Wilfrid Howard: A Darker Shade of Pale: a Backdrop to Bob Dylan, Oxford ed.
- Pickering, Stephen: Praxis One: Existence, Men and Realities
- Riley, Tim: Hard Rain: a Dylan Commentary
- Rodenberg, Hans-Peter: Subversive Phantasie: Untersuchungen zur Lyrik der amerikanischen Gegenkultur 1960-1975
- Schmidt, Mathias R: Bob Dylans message songs der Sechziger Jahre: und die anglo-amerikanische Tradition des sozialkritischen Liedes
- Shelton, Robert: No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, 1st ed.
- Shelton, Robert: No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, 2nd ed.
- Spitz, Bob: Dylan: A Biography, UK ed.
- Spitz, Bob: Dylan: A Biography, US ed.
- Thomson, Elizabeth M: The Dylan Companion, UK ed.
- Thomson, Elizabeth M: The Dylan Companion, A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan, US ed.
- Williams, Paul: Bob Dylan: Performing Artist: the Early Years, 1960-1973
- Williams, Paul: Bob Dylan: Performing Artist: the Middle Years, 1974-1986
- Williams, Paul: Performing Artist: The Music of Bob Dylan; Volume One, 1960-1973
Chronologies
"You always know who you are.
I just don't know who I'm gonna become."
-- Bob Dylan 1987 --
Concordances & Dictionaries
"It happened that maybe those were the words I could find
to separate aliveness from deadness.
It had nothing to do with age."
-- Bob Dylan 1964 --
Discographies
"I guess catastrophe and confusion are the basis of my songs.
But basically my songs are really about love. Love of life."
-- Bob Dylan 1965 --
- Primarily discographies
- Cable, Paul: Bob Dylan, His Unreleased Recordings, UK
- Cable, Paul: Bob Dylan, His Unreleased Recordings, US
- Dundas, Glen: Tangled Up in Tapes: A Collector's Guide of the Tape Recordings of Bob Dylan, 1987
- Dundas, Glen: Tangled Up in Tapes: The Recordings of Bob Dylan, 1994
- Dunn, Tim: I Just Write 'Em As They Come: An Annotated Guide to the Writings of Bob Dylan
- Heylin, Clinton: Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions 1960-1994
- Heylin, Clinton: To Live Outside the Law: A Guide to Dylan Bootlegs
- Hoggard, Stuart: Bob Dylan: An Illustrated Discography
- Krogsgaard, Michael: Twenty Years of Recording: The Bob Dylan Referance Book
- Krogsgaard, Michael: Master of the Tracks: The Bob Dylan Referance Book
- Krogsgaard, Michael: Positively Bob Dylan: A Thirty-Year Discography, Concert & Recording Session Guide, 1960-1991
- Liff, Dennis R: Raging Glory
- Marsh, Keith Charles: DylanBase: A Comprehensive Discography Software Program
- Roques, Dominique: The Great White Answers: The Bob Dylan Bootleg Records
- Townsend, Phill: Strangers and Prophets, The CD Bootlegs of Bob Dylan, Vol 1
- Townsend, Phill: Strangers and Prophets, The CD Bootlegs of Bob Dylan, Vol 2
- Works containing discographies
- Bowden, Betsy: Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan, 1982
- Cott, Jonathan: Dylan
- Gray, Michael: Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan, UK 1972
- Gray, Michael: Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan, US 1972
- Gray, Michael: Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan, 1981
- Hammond, John: John Hammond on Record: An Autobiography
- Hampton, Wayne: Guerrilla minstrels: John Lennon, Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan
- Haver, Fritz Werner: Bob Dylans Surrealistische Songpoesie
- Heylin, Clinton: Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades: A Biography, UK
- Heylin, Clinton: Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades: A Biography, US
- Heylin, Clinton: Bob Dylan: Stolen Moments: The Ultimate Reference Book
- Heylin, Clinton: Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry
- Heylin, Clinton: Rain Unravelled Tales: A Rumourography
- Humphries, Patrick: Absolutely Dylan
- Humphries, Patrick: Oh No! Not Another Bob Dylan Book
- McKeen, William: Bob Dylan: a Bio-bibliography
- Mellers, Wilfrid Howard: A Darker Shade of Pale: a Backdrop to Bob Dylan, Faber ed.
- Mellers, Wilfrid Howard: A Darker Shade of Pale: a Backdrop to Bob Dylan, Oxford ed.
- Riley, Tim: Hard Rain: a Dylan Commentary
- Rowley, Chris: Blood on the Tracks: The Story of Bob Dylan
- Scaduto, Anthony: Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography
- Scaduto, Anthony: Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography, 2nd ed.
- Shelton, Robert: No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, 1st ed.
- Shelton, Robert: No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, 2nd ed.
- Spitz, Bob: Dylan: A Biography, UK ed.
- Spitz, Bob: Dylan: A Biography, US ed.
- Thomson, Elizabeth M: The Dylan Companion, UK ed.
- Thomson, Elizabeth M: The Dylan Companion, A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan, US ed.
- Williams, Paul: Bob Dylan: Performing Artist: the Early Years, 1960-1973
- Williams, Paul: Bob Dylan: Performing Artist: the Middle Years, 1974-1986
- Williams, Paul: Performing Artist: The Music of Bob Dylan; Volume One, 1960-1973
Filmographies
"The movie creates and holds time. That's what it should do.
It should hold that time, breathe in that time and stop time in doing that."
-- Bob Dylan 1978 --
- Diddle, Gavin: Images and Assorted Facts
- Dundas, Glen: Tangled Up in Tapes: The Recordings of Bob Dylan, 1994
- Dunn, Tim: I Just Write 'Em As They Come: An Annotated Guide to the Writings of Bob Dylan
- Gamble, Mel: Outside the Law
- Heylin, Clinton: Bob Dylan: Stolen Moments: The Ultimate Reference Book
- McKeen, William: Bob Dylan: a Bio-bibliography
- Williams, Paul: Bob Dylan: Performing Artist: the Early Years, 1960-1973
- Williams, Paul: Bob Dylan: Performing Artist: the Middle Years, 1974-1986
- Williams, Paul: Performing Artist: The Music of Bob Dylan; Volume One, 1960-1973
- About films
- Other website: Renaldo and Clara: Synopsis of Dylan's movie, by Mark Stein.
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