早在 1994 年，諾姆·喬姆斯基就推翻了迪倫作為進步藝術家典範的地位，並指出了將個人崇拜奉為圭臬讓他付出的代價：
有人問他如何看待柏克萊的“言論自由運動”，他說他不理解。他說了這樣的話：「我有言論自由，我可以做我想做的事，所以這與我無關。時期。如果資本主義公關機器想要為自己的目的塑造某個人，那麼他們不可能做出更好的選擇。
迪倫更根本的角色，也許是擔任美國非政治人士的政治歌曲作者。
Back in 1994, Noam Chomsky demolished Dylan as the model of the progressive artist, putting his finger on what the enshrinement of the personal cost him:
He was asked what he thought about the Berkeley “free speech movement” and said that he didn’t understand it. He said something like: “I have free speech, I can do what I want, so it has nothing to do with me. Period.” If the capitalist PR machine wanted to invent someone for their purposes, they couldn’t have made a better choice.
Dylan’s more fundamental role might have been to serve as America’s political songwriter for the apolitical.
But there are other reasons Dylan remains snagged in our collective consciousness, especially now. Though at least two of his songs — “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin’” — have been irrevocably shanghaied as the examples of Protest Songs of the ’60s, his more fundamental role might have been to serve as America’s political songwriter for the apolitical. The lyrics for the albums “Bringing It All Back Home” and “Highway 61 Revisited” are not only irreverently funny and freewheeling in their pillaging of high and low culture, but they’re also sardonic, ambiguous and offhand. They’re the opposite of earnest, and when they point out problems, they do it with a shrug. Like many of his countrymen and women, he periodically registered with clarity or even outrage the state of the status quo, but he mostly dismissed any notion that he should extend his fretting over it.但還有其他原因導致迪倫仍然留在我們的集體意識中，尤其是現在。儘管他的至少兩首歌曲——《隨風飄蕩》和《時代在變化》——已被無可挽回地強行帶入 60 年代抗議歌曲的典範，但他更根本的作用可能是擔任美國非政治人士的政治歌曲作者。專輯《Bringing It All Back Home》和《Highway 61 Revisited》的歌詞不僅在對高雅文化和低俗文化的掠奪中表現出不敬的幽默和隨心所欲，而且還充滿諷刺、模棱兩可和隨意性。他們並不認真，當他們指出問題時，只是聳聳肩。和他的許多同胞一樣，他定期對現狀表示清醒甚至憤怒，但他大多時候不認為應該繼續為此煩惱。
Those two albums were recorded roughly in the period covered by James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” the most recent cinematic tribute to Dylan, starring Timothée Chalamet, and the latest stone added to the Everest of such works. Though the drama begins and ends with Dylan’s devotion to Woody Guthrie’s work, the movie makes vividly clear how much more anarchic and exciting Dylan seemed than folk music’s other standard bearers, singer-songwriters like Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, since they were stuck not only lamenting injustice but also promoting an agenda for social change. Dylan’s lyrics, on the other hand, mostly seemed to suggest It’s All Absurd or, more pointedly, They’re All Assholes, a sentiment that adorned more than a few political lawn signs in 2024.
A huge number of our cultural heroes, fictional and otherwise, have prided themselves on not being political, on their individuality as their ultimate value. Think of our western heroes, or our private eyes, or the way so many presidential candidates, the very definition of the triumphant insider, try to position themselves as outsiders.
And as anyone who has attended one of his concerts knows, the central characteristic of Dylan’s career has been to not do what’s expected of him, even to the extent of putting out one of the most godawful Christmas albums in the history of the genre.
Dylan’s version of rebellion much more resembles that of Brando’s in “The Wild One.” When asked, “Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?” Brando famously replied “Whaddaya got?”
''Everything is too full now; we are spoon-fed everything. All songs, now, are about one thing and one thing specifically, there is no shading, no nuance, no mystery.
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Happy birthday Bob Dylan!
The people behind the Nobel Prize for Literature have stopped trying to contact Bob Dylan about his award.
Bob Dylan: 'No word' on Nobel Prize for Literature
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歐巴馬總統曾和新出爐的諾貝爾文學獎得主巴布‧狄倫有過一次「短暫的」接觸。「狄倫上台唱了他的名曲〈The Times They Are A-Changin'〉(蛻變時節)，他實在太強了，輕鬆寫意地就為這首曲子想出了新的編曲，讓那首歌聽起來有了全新的感覺。唱完之後，他就只是走下台，跟我握手，點個頭，淺淺一笑就離開了。這就是我跟他僅有的接觸。不過說真的，這就是我們心中的狄倫，你總不會希望他露出燦爛的笑容，跟大家來張大合照吧？你會期待他對體制就是帶點不信任。真是一次珍貴的經驗。」-- 歐巴馬總恭賀巴布‧狄倫獲得2016年諾貝爾文學獎。#BobDylan #NobelPrize
President Obama celebrated Bob Dylan, who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. Look what the president said about Bob Dylan: “Here's what I love about Dylan: He was exactly as you'd expect he would be… He came in and played ‘The Times They Are A-Changin'.’ A beautiful rendition. The guy is so steeped in this stuff that he can just come up with some new arrangement, and the song sounds completely different. Finishes the song, steps off the stage—I'm sitting right in the front row—comes up, shakes my hand, sort of tips his head, gives me just a little grin, and then leaves. And that was it—then he left. That was our only interaction with him. And I thought: That's how you want Bob Dylan, right? You don't want him to be all cheesin' and grinnin' with you. You want him to be a little skeptical about the whole enterprise. So that was a real treat.” —President Obama celebrating Bob Dylan, who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature today
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uy is so steeped in this stuff that he can just come up with some new arrangement, and the song sounds completely different. Finishes the song, steps off the stage—I'm sitting right in the front row—comes up, shakes my hand, sort of tips his head, gives me just a little grin, and then leaves. And that was it—then he left. That was our only interaction with him. And I thought: That's how you want Bob Dylan, right? You don't want him to be all cheesin' and grinnin' with you. You want him to be a little skeptical about the whole enterprise. So that was a real treat.” —President Obama celebrating Bob Dylan, who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature today.
Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel prize in literature
Few people would deny his influence as a musician. Many have questioned the decision to recognise it with the same honour that was once bestowed on George Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre and Rudyard Kipling
Bob Dylan wins a Nobel prize
His performed verses have been compared to Homer and Sappho
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Congratulations to Bob Dylan, the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature! Though not a writer in the traditional manner of novelists and poets, Dylan's timeless lyrics and continued output have led to Nobel speculation for years, and that speculation can now be put to rest. https://www.nobelprize.org
我想起大學時代 (1971-75)，同學彭淮棟先生即撰文分析此君的歌如詩 (希望我沒記錯)
瑞典文學院宣布，授予美國民謠歌手鮑勃·迪倫(Bob Dylan)2016年諾貝爾文學獎。
鮑勃·迪倫是美國最著名的音樂人之一，曾獲得葛萊美獎、金球獎和奧斯卡金像獎等獎項。諾貝爾文學獎頒獎詞稱他在「偉大的美國傳統歌曲中注入詩意的表達。」 Luc Sante on Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize in Literature: "Dylan almost singlehandedly created a climate in which song lyrics were taken seriously."
Bob Dylan, regarded as the voice of a generation for his influential songs from the 1960s onwards, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in a surprise decision that made him the only singer-songwriter to win the award. See more: http://reut.rs/2dVur8e
The first American to win since 1993
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Bob Dylan, Titan Of American Music, Wins 2016 Nobel Prize In Literature
October 13, 20167:08 AM ET
Bob Dylan performs in Chicago in 1978. He is the first American to claim the Nobel Prize in literature since Toni Morrison won in 1993.Paul Natkin/Getty Images
Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature. The prolific musician is the first Nobel winner to have forged a career primarily as a singer-songwriter. What's more, he's also the first American to have won the prize in more than two decades. Not since novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993 has an American claimed the prize.
Dylan earned the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," according to the citation by the Swedish Academy, the committee that annually decides the recipient of the Nobel Prize. The academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, announced the news Thursday.
BREAKING 2016 #NobelPrize in Literature to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”
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The win comes as something of a shock. As usual, the Swedish Academy did not announce a shortlist of nominees, leaving the betting markets to their best guesses. And while Dylan has enjoyed perennial favor as an outside shot for the award, the prospect that the musician would be the one to break the Americans' long dry spell was regarded as far-fetched — not least because he made his career foremost on the stage, not the printed page.
Yet few would argue Dylan has been anything but influential, both in the U.S. and beyond its borders. The prolific singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has produced dozens of albums, including The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited and Blood on the Tracks. His track "Like a Rolling Stone" has taken on mythic standing in the decades since its release; many, including Dylan himself, have pointed to it as emblematic of a sea change in American music.
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"Tin Pan Alley is gone," Dylan proclaimed in 1985, referring the dominant conventions established by music publishers of the early 20th century. "I put an end to it. People can record their own songs now."
Dylan, who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, "has the status of an icon," the Swedish Academy wrote in a biographical note. "His influence on contemporary music is profound, and he is the object of a steady stream of secondary literature."
In an interview following the announcement, Danius elaborated on the Swedish Academy's decision: "He is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition, and he is a wonderful sampler — a very original sampler," Danius explained. "For 54 years now he has been at it and reinventing himself, constantly creating a new identity."
And for his work, he has been amply recognized by critical community. Dylan has won Grammys, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S. Now, to that trove of honors Dylan has added a Nobel.
The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded since 1901 to writers who have produced "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction." In that time, 109 prizes have been distributed to 113 writers. This year, the prize carries with it a purse of approximately $900,000 and, as usual, inclusion on literature's most illustrious list — the pantheon of Nobel winners.
The 75-year-old artist will receive his award in Stockholm on Dec. 10.
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