BOB DYLAN AND THE INTERTWINED HISTORIES OF MUSIC, POLITICS, AND RACE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY US CULTURE

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

This course focuses on Bob Dylan. It begins by looking at the musical traditions he absorbs and their relation to race. It examines influential “beat” movement figures such as Ginsberg and Kerouac. It focuses on the relation of Dylan’s crucial sixties albums to the social turmoil of the decade.