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Lecturer(s)
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Bílek Petr, prof. PhDr. CSc.
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Course content
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I. phase: The Folk Bard (from Bob Dylan up to Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1962-1964) The analysed album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) II. phase: The Electrification as a "Betrayal" and as a Path to Poetic Complexity (from Bringing It All Back Home up to John Wesley Harding, 1964-1967) The Analysed albums: Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966) III. phase: Immersion into Tradition and the Plea for Music Universality (from Nashville Skyline up to Planet Waves, 1969-1974) IV. phase: Cutting the Edge of Autobiography, Treating People in Conflict with Their Contexts (from Blood on the Tracks up to Street Legal, 1975-1978) The analysed album: Blood on the Tracks (1975) V. phase: Under the Veil of Religion (from Slow Train Coming up to Shot of Love, 1979-1981) VI. phase: Burlesque Search for a Novelty Path (from Infidels up to World Gone Wrong, 1983-1993) The analysed album: Oh Mercy (1989) VII. phase: Reflections of an Old Maestro (from Time Out of Mind up to Together Through Life, 1997-2009) The analysed album: Time Out of Mind (1997) VIII. phase: Rummaging the Junkyards of Classics (from Christmas in the Heart up to Triplicate, 2009-2017) The analysed album: Tempest (2012)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The seminar form course focuses on the interpretation of key LPs of Bob Dylan with respect to their chronological order. The albums are going to be interpreted as complex containers of diverse codes and meanings (album cover, the semantics of music and lyrics, the performative presentation of the author). Such analysis should reach for both the constant ("everlasting") and occasional ("unique", "ever-changing") features of the themes and styles. Each album is going to be analysed upon the background of the status of its cultural field, with respect to the "high-brow" and "popular culture" structuring of such a field.
The ability to semantize and verbally express the emotional experience of listening to music. Enhanced ability to contextualize the themes, means of expression and media associated with rock music.
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Prerequisites
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English fluent enough to allow understanding of written texts and song lyrics.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance assessment
A good knowledge of English is required (ability to understand song lyrics and read academic literature).
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Recommended literature
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Beviglia, Jim. Counting Down Bob Dylan: His 100 Finest Songs. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013..
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Bowden, Betsy. Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982..
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Corcoran, Neil, ed. Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors. London: Chatto & Windus, 2002..
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Dalton, David. Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan. New York: Hyperion, 2012..
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Dettmar, Kevin J. H., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009..
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Dylan, Bob. The Complete Album Collection Vol. One. Columbia Records, 2013..
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Egan, Sean, ed. The Mammoth Book of Bob Dylan. London: Constable and Robinson, 2011..
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Grey, Michael. The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. London: Continuum Books, 2006..
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Ricks, Christopher. Dylan's Visions of Sin. London: Viking, 2003..
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Sounes, Howard. Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan. New York: Grove Press, 2011..
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Thomas, Richard F. Why Bob Dylan Matters. New York: Dey Street Books, 2017..
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