Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World Book

Introduction Colleen J. Sheehy John Barner Thomas Swiss xi

Part I Highway 61, From North to South

1 Hibbing High School and "the Mystery of Democracy" Greil Marcus 3

2 Jewish Homes on the Range, 1890-1960 Marilyn J. Chiat 15

3 Not from Nowhere: Identity and Aspiration in Bob Dylan's Hometown Susan Clayton 25

4 "A Lamp Is Burning in All Our Dark": Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash Court Carney 39

5 Allowed to Be Free: Bob Dylan and the Civil Rights Movement Charles Hughes 44

Part II Planet Waves

6 Lives of Allegory: Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol Thomas Crow 63

7 Like the Night: Reception and Reaction Dylan UK 1966 C. P. Lee 78

8 Oh, the Streets of Rome: Dylan in Italy Alessandro Carrera 84

9 Bob Dylan's Reception in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s Mikiko Tachi 106

10 Borderless Troubadour: Bob Dylan's Influence on International Protest during the Cold War Heather Stur 122

Part III The Ancients, Whom All Moderns Prize

11 Bob Dylan's Lives of the Poets: Theme Time Radio Hour as Buried Autobiography Mick Cochrane 133

12 Bob Dylan's Memory Palace Robert Polito 140

13 Among Schoolchildren: Dylan's Forty Years in the Classroom Kevin J. H. Dettmar 154

Part IV In a Voice Without Restraint

14 Women Do Dylan: The Aesthetics and Politics of Dylan Covers Daphne Brooks Gayle Wald 169

15 Crow Jane Approximately: Bob Dylan's Black Masque Aldon Lynn Nielsen 186

16 Not Dark Yet: How Bob Dylan Got His Groove Back David Yaffe 197

17 "Nettie Moore": Minstrelsy and the Cultural Economy of Race in Bob Dylan's Late Albums Robert Reginio 213

18 "Somewhere down in the United States": The Art of Bob Dylan's Ventriloquism MichaelCherlin Sumanth Gopinath 225

19 Dylan/Disabled: Tolling for the Deaf and Blind Alex Lubet 237

20 Bob Dylan and the Beats: Magpie Poetics, an Investigation and Memoir Anne Waldman 249

Acknowledgments 261

Contributors 263

Index 267