Dylan’s Autobiography of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967

Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan’s lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock’n’roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as “poems.” This open access book instead focuses on how all of Dylan’s 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal “autobiography” in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.