LIKE A ROLLING STONE: BOB DYLAN AT THE CROSSROADS

Book ID/图书代码： 14320006B06347

English Summary/英文概要： Published for the fortieth anniversary of the recording of "Like a Rolling Stone", this is the definitive biography of the song that caught the questing spirit of its time and changed the rules of the possible in popular music overnight Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn’t know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between Bob Dylan and America’s finest critic of popular music - in the words of Nick Hornby "simply peerless not only as a rock writer but as a cultural historian." In Like a Rolling Stone, Marcus locates Dylan’s six-minute masterwork in its richest, fullest context, capturing the heady atmosphere of the recording studio in 1965 as musicians and technicians clustered around the mercurial genius from Minnesota, the young Bob Dylan at the height of his powers. But Marcus shows how, far from being a song only of 1965, "Like a Rolling Stone" is rooted in faraway American places and times, drawing on timeless cultural impulses that make the song as challenging, disruptive and restless today as it ever was, capable of reinvention by artists as disparate as the comedian Richard Belzer and the Italian hip-hop duo "Articolo 31". "Like a Rolling Stone" never loses its essential quality, which is directly to challenge the listener: it remains a call-to-arms and a demand for a better world. Forty years later it is still revolutionary as will and idea, as an attack and an embrace.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Bob Dylan，震古鑠今美國民謠之父，獲得七座葛萊美獎、終身成就獎，進入搖滾名人堂，近一億張唱片銷售，歌曲在將近半世紀以來傳遍全世界各地，獲得舉世的推崇，堪稱活生生的傳奇。
1941年5月24日生於美國明尼蘇達州，本名是Robert Allen Zimmerman，基於崇拜名詩人Dylan Thomas的原因，而取名「Bob Dylan」。
1961年元月24日，Bob Dylan抵達當代民謠音樂的發詳地──紐約的格林威治村求發展，就此發跡。他以沙啞的喉音，伴隨著吉他與口琴的鼓動，洗滌了越戰以降美國青年的心房。Bob Dylan簡單如詩般的歌詞，乾淨如洗的背景音樂，像福音那樣感召了許多孤寂的靈魂，甚至有著救贖的效應，挽回許多浪子的心。
於是繼貓王之後，Bob Dylan成為最受景仰及讚譽的美國藝人，正如披頭四之於英國，Bob Dylan在60年代開啟了一場影響音樂、甚而政治及宗教的文化革命。而他個人最大的成就，莫過於是以詩般的筆法所揮灑而出的時而諷喻憤慨、時而表達個人喜悅卻都發人省思的詞句，為通俗音樂創造了全新的語言，開啟更為寬廣的道路。
Bob Dylan 至今依然活躍如昔，2006年八月底發表的全新創作《摩登時代》(Modern Times) 登上排行冠軍寶座，他還密集巡迴演唱，出版自傳，大導演馬丁史柯西斯並且拍攝了他的傳記影片。與Bob Dylan有深厚情誼的流行音樂樂評家以Bob Dylan 1996 年成名作品 Like a Rolling Stone 為發想，探討 Bob Dylan 和他這首「搖滾國歌」所造成的影響，Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads堪稱是眾多討論Bob Dylan 的書中，最有質感的。

Awards/获奖情况：• “A fascinating, transporting read.” –The Christian Science Monitor

• “Greil Marcus’s unique command of both literary and musical references makes him unquestionably the best of Dylan’s legion of critics.” –Time Out New York

• “Marcus displays a gift for couching the musical culture in its political era.” –Washington Post Book World

About the Author/作者介绍： Greil Marcus is the author of Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces, Dead Elvis, In the Fascist Bathroom, That Old Weird America and Double Trouble. He has written for numerous newspapers, websites and magazines, among them New York Times, Rolling Stone, Threepenny Review, Los Angeles Magazine; LA Times, Salon, Granta. He has lectured at U Cal, Berkeley, The Whitney Museum of Art and Princeton University. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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