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Tag Archives: I’m Not there
CONFIDENCE MEN:Masquerade, Myth and Art
For the confidence man to find a comfortable home in the heart of American culture, he needed a mask. And humor has often become an intricate part of the disguise. From the Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor in blackface which … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Al Jolson, American Humor: A Study of the national Character, Bob Dylan, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Constance Rourke, Eddie Cantor, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Greil Marcus, Griel Marcus, Hannah Arendt, Henry James, Herman Melville, I'm Not there, Luc Sante, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, The Confidence man, The Invisible Republic, The Old Weird America
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Dylan & Rimbaud: Whose Not There?
Should Bob Dylan be considered a songwriter or a poet? Dylan was asked that very question at a press conference in 1965, when he famously said, “I think of myself more as a song-and-dance man.” It is indisputable, though, that … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Ben Whishlaw, Bob Dylan, Clive James, Dylan Thomas, Franz Kafka, Guy Debord, H.G. Wells, I'm Not there, Kevin Urban, Larry Gross, Mark Jenkins, Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud, The Time Machine, Woody Guthrie
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Dylan Not There, Yet Everywhere
The theories and opinions of the German philosopher Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) on popular music and the culture industry are still highly influential in the domain of media studies. His thoughts about these subjects were very critical, pessimistic even. Adorno … Continue reading