Popular culture & indeed all of literature is based on inappropriate use of
sources. Jonathan Lethem has a wonderful essay, "The Ecstasy of Influence,"
in the last Harper's. He mentions Dylan specifically. It's
online<http://www.harpers.org/TheEcstasyOfInfluence.html>
.
jd
On 3/22/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> What do you mean, so what? Why shouldn't Bob be held
> accountable for his "inappropriate" use of sources?
> Imagine what HE'D be like with the shoe on the other
> foot if "Nettie Moore" had been swiped from him.
>
> Candice
>
>
>
> --- MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I can't argue with that list, whatever Bob lifted
> > from civil war poets
> > (so what? as others have remarked) - and I haven't
> > even heard the new
> > Lucinda Williams yet (still reeling from WWT),
> > though I might choose
> > Elvis Costello or Gillian Welch instead of Joni
> > Mitchell.
> > mj
> > Joseph Duemer wrote:
> >
> > > The only recent Cohen album I haven't liked is
> > Dear Heather. I think
> > > Ten New
> > > Songs, The Future & this new Blue Alert are all
> > fine. There's only one
> > > clunker on Blue Alert, but I leave it to you to
> > find it. Anjani's voice
> > > seems the perfect vehicle.
> > >
> > > Neil Young's lyrics are often appalling, I think:
> > Portentous claptrap,
> > > romantic sap, bad & I mean really bad rhymes. But
> > when he sings them with
> > > Crazyhorse, it all makes perfect sense to me.
> > >
> > > In the spirit of Hornby's novel, which is full of
> > Top Five Lists, here
> > > are
> > > my top five contemporary pop lyricists:
> > >
> > > 1. Bob Dylan
> > > 2. Tom Waits
> > > 3. Joni Mitchell
> > > 4. Leonard Cohen
> > > 5. Lucinda Williams
> > >
> > > jd
> > >
> >
> > --
> >
> > The art of being civilized is the art of learning to
> > read between the lies. - Kenneth Rexroth
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
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