BOB DYLAN: JEWISH PROPHET, MYSTIC, POET

Book ID/图书代码： 02740010B34734

English Summary/英文概要： Bob Dylan and his artistic accomplishments have been explored, examined, and dissected year in and year out for decades, and through almost every lens. Yet rarely has anyone delved extensively into Dylan’s Jewish heritage and the influence of Judaism in his work. In Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, Seth Rogovoy, an award-winning critic and expert on Jewish music, rectifies that oversight, presenting a fascinating new look at one of the most celebrated musicians of all time.

Rogovoy unearths the various strands of Judaism that appear throughout Bob Dylan’s songs, revealing the ways in which Dylan walks in the footsteps of the Jewish Prophets. Rogovoy explains the profound depth of Jewish content -- drawn from the Bible, the Talmud, and the Kabbalah -- at the heart of Dylan’s music, anddemonstrates how his songs can only be fully appreciated in light of Dylan’s relationship to Judaism and the Jewish themes that inform them.

From his childhood growing up the son of Abe and Beatty Zimmerman, who were at the center of the small Jewish community in his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, to his frequent visits to Israel and involvement with the Orthodox Jewish outreach movement Chabad, Judaism has permeated Dylan’s everyday life and work. Early songs like "Blowin’ in the Wind" derive central imagery from passages in the books of Ezekiel and Isaiah; mid-career numbers like "Forever Young" are infused with themes from the Bible, Jewish liturgy, and Kabbalah; while late-period efforts have revealed a mind shaped by Jewish concepts of Creation and redemption. In this context, even Dylan’s so-called born-again period is seen as a logical, almost inevitable development in his growth as a man and artist wrestling with the burden and inheritance of the Jewish prophetic tradition.

Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet is a fresh and illuminating look at one of America’s most renowned -- and one of its most enigmatic -- talents.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 伴随着其伟大的音乐成就，年复一年，人们从未停止过对于美国摇滚乐坛传奇歌手鲍勃•迪伦的探索以及研究。但尽管如此，鲍勃作品之中对于犹太文化的传承和影响却始终未曾引起世人的真正注意。在《鲍勃•迪伦：先知，诗人，神秘主义者》一书当中，犹太音乐领域著名的获奖乐评家塞斯.罗果沃伊，拨开重重谜团，将这位杰出艺人鲜为人知的崭新一面彻底呈现在了读者面前。
从鲍勃•迪伦众多的歌曲之中，作者成功搜寻了大量的犹太主义元素，他向我们指出，正是透过这种方式迪伦逐渐追随着犹太先知们前进的足迹。它们来自于圣经、犹太法典、甚至是卡巴拉教，迪伦音乐的生命核心蕴含着浓厚的犹太主义文化元素；只有在真正领悟到迪伦本人与犹太主义间的密切关系之后，其歌曲所隐藏的丰富内涵和本质才能得到我们彻底的接受和认同。
成长于明尼苏达州希宾市的犹太社区，成年之后的迪伦曾先后多次频繁地前往以色列，因此犹太主义文化的烙印早已深深地印刻在了他日常的工作与生活当中。这一点可以从其早期的音乐作品中得到体现，比如“随风飘逝”一曲的创作灵感便是取自圣经旧约中的故事；而在他的创作中期，以“青春永驻”为代表的更多作品则充分彰显出了大量源于圣经、犹太祷告以及卡布拉的创作背景；而后期的歌曲则集中体现出了迪伦对于犹太教中对于上帝眷顾与救赎的信奉和虔诚。
本书以其崭新及独特的角度，向我们再次揭示出美国乐坛上最为伟大的传奇人物--鲍勃.迪伦鲜为人知的一面。(ANDY)

Awards/获奖情况：Praises
"Even after almost fifty years, the language of Bob Dylan’s songs remains full of uncharted territory. Seth Rogovoy is uniquely qualified to examine the connections between Dylan’s songwriting and the Jewish liturgy, and Prophet, Mystic, Poet helps fill in one more piece of an endless and endlessly fascinating puzzle."
-- Alan Light, former senior writer at Rolling Stone and frequent contributor to The New York Times

About the Author/作者介绍： Seth Rogovoy is an award-winning music critic, radio commentator, musician, and author of The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover’s Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music (Algonquin Books, 2000). His writing has appeared in Newsday, Haaretz, the Boston Phoenix, Hadassah Magazine, the Forward, and on the web at the Rogovoy Report (www.rogovoy.com). He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he is editor-in-chief of Berkshire Living magazine. His grandparents were from Russia, and he has blue eyes.

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