Bob Dylan did not invent his style.
Dylan studied Ramblin Jack Elliott
Elliott was Woody Guthrie's protégé - then came Bob Dylan, doing the Guthrie-Elliott thing, called a poor man's Elliott (Jack, in turn, had been called a poor man's Guthrie). On April 12, 1963, it was Harold Leventhal who presented 21-year-old Bob Dylan in his first major concert-hall appearance.
Ramblin Jack Elliott says: "I suppose I taught Bobby a few of my songs. Those old VD songs by Woody that nobody wanted the young kids to know, he picked them up from me..."quoted in Robert Shelton, No Direction Home, London 1987, p. 104.
Bob Dylan & Joan Baez - Blowin' In The Wind (1976)
1. Plagiarism in Dylan, or a Cultural Collage? writing songs that are information collages. Allusions and memories, fragments of dialogue and nuggets of tradition have always been part of Mr. Dylan's songs, all stitched together like crazy quilts. Bob Dylan exposed as one more plagiarist?
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3. Lefsetz, It All Comes Down To Education, Values and...
They weren't us. Bob Dylan was us. Growing up middle ... see Marty Scorcese's Bob Dylan documentary "No Direction Home". It ... It wasn't about Dylan so much as CREATIVITY! INSPIRATION
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neglected cultures and silenced people into the communications chain". Bob Dylan lauded him quite simply as a "missionary". His field recordings with the likes of Leadbelly, Muddy
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6. Famous Quotes, Fun Musical Quotes and other Quote...
is a friend of mine." - Bob Dylan "There is nothing more difficult than talking about music ... his name off the piano."
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7. Speech and Music Connection,Interdisciplinary Social Rhythm Researchers
like a stone, for the times they are a-changin'..."-- Bob Dylan William Condon says: "Your body's locked precisely with your speech. You can't break out of this no matter what you
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Repository Integrate Literacy, Music and Technology ORIGINS OF FOLKSONGS Bob Dylan says : " But you can't just copy somebody. If you like someone's work, the important thing is to
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9. Military Music the Music of War
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It's All Right, Ma: 1965
Harold Leventhal, Promoter of Folk Music, Dies at 86
Harold Leventhal, an internationally renowned folk music promoter died on October 4 th 2005. A true pioneer and legend who spaned music history over the past 50 years. until the close of the 20th century. From the cold war to rock 'n' roll. he remained an unreconstructed folkie to the end of his life.
Harold Leventhal was born on May 24, 1919, in Ellenville, N.Y., and grew up on the Lower East Side and in the Bronx where he began his career in the 1930's selling songs for Irving Berlin, to Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore and Peggy Lee.
During World War II, Mr. Leventhal served in the Army Signal Corps, stationed in India. After the war, Mr. Leventhal returned to New York, where the Weavers were singing "Goodnight, Irene" and "Tzena, Tzena" in Greenwich Village coffeehouses., Mr. Leventhal began managing the group. By 1952, the Weavers, a highly public casualty of the McCarthy blacklist, had been forced to disband. Intent on reuniting them, Mr. Leventhal booked Carnegie Hall for Christmas Eve 1955. He told each of the Weavers that the other three had already agreed to a reunion. He ended up being the one who showed the folk music industry how to produce a concert, how you rent a hall, when you take out the ads. He made them into concert promoters."
Mr. Leventhal had been Woody Guthrie's business manager and later his executor. He was also a founder and trustee Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives. Mr. Leventhal was the connection between the folk music era of the 50’s and the world of the late 60's.
On April 12, 1963, Leventhal presented 21-year-old Bob Dylan in his first major concert-hall appearance. He promoted Guthrie, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte; Theodore Bikel; Oscar Brand; Johnny Cash; Judy Collins; Arlo Guthrie; Jim Kweskin; the Mamas and the Papas; Holly Near; the New Lost City Ramblers; Phil Ochs; Odetta; Tom Paxton; Peter, Paul and Mary; Jean Ritchie; Martha Schlamme; Earl Scruggs; the Weavers; and Neil Young. Mr. Leventhal occasionally managed performers in other musical genres, like Jacques Brel, Miriam Makeba, Nana Mouskouri, Jean Redpath and Ravi Shankar.
His honors include a Grammy Award in 1989 as a producer of the album "Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly" (Columbia Records). "Bound for Glory" received two Academy Awards, for music and cinematography.
Mr. Leventhal produced several movies relating to the folk-music world, Alice 's Restaurant" (1969); "Bound for Glory" (1976), a film biography of Woody Guthrie starring David Carradine; and "Wasn't That a Time!" (1982), a documentary about the Weavers' celebrated reunion in 1980. In 2003 Carnegie Hall concert became the basis of a documentary film, "Isn't This a Time!" (2004).. The inspiration for Irving Steinbloom, the folk impresario whose memorial concert sets in motion the plot of the 2003 film comedy "A Mighty Wind."
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