This collection focuses on Bob Dylans setlists from the 1960s to the 2020s. These multidisciplinary essays examine how the concert setlist can be used as a source to explore many aspects of Dylans public life. Unique in its approach and wide-ranging scholarly methodology, this book deepens our understanding of Bob Dylan, the performer.
Ephemeral by nature, the concert setlist is a rich, if underexplored, text for scholarly research. How an artist curates a show is a significant aspect of any concerts appeal. Through the placement of songs, variations in order, or the omission of material, Bob Dylans setlists form a meta-narrative speaking to the power and significance of his music. These essays use the setlists from concerts throughout Dylans career to study his approach to his material from the 1960s to the 2020s. These chapters, from various disciplinary perspectives, illustrate how the concert setlist can be used as a source to explore many aspects of Dylans public life. Finally, this collection provides a new method to examine other musicians across genres with an interdisciplinary approach to setlists and the selectivity of performance. Unique in its approach and wide-ranging scholarly methodology, this book deepens our understanding of Bob Dylan, the performer.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Politics and Power of Bob Dylans Live Performances Erin
C. Callahan and Court Carney
Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Implications of the Past: A Case Study
Court Carney
"Might as Well Just Stay Up Here": Bob Dylans Pivotal Performance at
Montreals Finjan Club in 1962 Simon McAslan
Im Ready to Go Anywhere: Bob Dylans Propulsive Vector of Engagement with
Audiences, 1964-1966 Keith Nainby and John Radosta
"Hurricane" and Bob Dylans Protest Music Renaissance on the Rolling Thunder
Tour Skye Landgraf
Reaching for the Nashville Skyline: Bob Dylans Country Music Connections and
Lasting Impact on the Emerging 1970s Country-Rock Movement McKenzie L.
Isom
The Rolling Thunder Revues Critical Bicentennial Nostalgia Jason Tebbe
"All the Worlds a Stage": Bob Dylans Spontaneous Performativity in Martin
Scorseses Rolling Thunder Revue (2019) and NBCs Hard Rain (1976) Sara
Martķnez
The Warfield Cycle: Dylans Mystery Plays, San Francisco, November 1980
Graley Herren
"Hanging in the balance of the reality of man": Dylans Artistic Vision of
Impermanence, October 1981 Jim Salvucci
Bob Dylans Splayed Anthems Robert Reginio
Bob Dylans Waste Land: Contemporary Existential Anxieties Reflected in the
2013-2019 Set Lists Erin C. Callahan
"Whats Going On in Your Show:" A look at the Shadow Kingdom setlist Nina
Goss
"Today and Tomorrow and Yesterday Too": Time in Bob Dylan's Work of the 2020s
Laura Tenschert
Encore: The Never-Ending Sonnets: On Bob Dylans Never-Ending Tour, 1987-1997
Jeff Fallis
Epilogue: From Angel to Devil, From Lovelorn to Enchantment: Dylans Setlists
in 2022 Erin C. Callahan and Court Carney
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Erin C. Callahan (PhD, Drew University) is Professor of English at San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas. She has published on gender in the Star Wars Saga, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Charles Schulzs Peanuts and contributed an essay to 21st Century Dylan: Late and Timely. She has presented at various conferences, including ACA/PCA, PAMLA, Bob Dylan in the 21st Century in Arras, France, and The World of Bob Dylan, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Court Carney (PhD, LSU) is Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he teaches on race, memory, culture, and music. He is the author of Cuttin Up: How Jazz Got Americas Ear and a forthcoming book on the public memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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