DYLAN A ND COHEN -
P OETS O F R OCK A ND R OLL

by David Boucher


Title Poets of Rock and Roll
Author David Boucher
Country & Year USA 2004
Publisher Continuum Pub Group, USA
Pages 256
Notes ISBN: 0826459811 (paperback); 0826459803 (hardback)
Summary "Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are widely acknowledged as the great pop poets of the 1960s, transforming the popular song into a medium for questionng the personal, social, and political norms of their times. They emerged at a time when the music industry was transforming the revolutionary sound of black music into something bland, homogenous, and fit for mass consumption. For many members of their generation, Dylan and Cohen were able to articulate what they were feeling and could not express: anti-establishement anger, angst, and despondency. Dylan and Cohen is a fascinating political, psychological and artistic profile of these two iconic writers and performers. With reference to both biographical details and lyrics. David Boucher explores their similarities and differences, tracing the development of religious political, and social themes in their work and the ways in which those ideas engaged a new audience"

The author is a professorial fellow at the School of European Studies, University of Cardiff.



Thanks to Ken Kurzweil



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