Bob Dylan doesn’t think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing ...

Bob Dylan was announced earlier this year as having written separate appreciations of more than 60 different songs for his forthcoming book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song.” Now, the names of all 66 ...

The post Bob Dylan Announces New Book The Philosophy of Modern Song appeared first on Consequence. Six years after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan has announced his first book of new ...

Bob Dylan is a very prolific songwriter, who has been releasing albums for longer than plenty other artists have even been alive. He’s racked up accolades like a Nobel Peace Prize, natch, and expanded ...

So right there may be your first clue (or your hundredth, depending on whether you read the chapters in order or not — no need for that) that “The Philosophy of Modern Song” is going to be rife with ...

Discussion of popular music often suffers from a fundamental misunderstanding. Whether it’s professional criticism or fan discussion, many people assume that what’s important about a pop song is what ...

In a 1997 Newsweek interview, Bob Dylan told “the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music . . . I’ve learned more from the songs than I’ve learned from . . . rabbis, ...

Bob Dylan's The Philosophy of Modern Song is a labor of love by a music lover of unremitting passion. As such, it is hard to put it down once the reading commences, if for no other reason than ...

Legendary singer-songwriter, Pulitzer Prize recipient and Nobel Prize laureate Bob Dylan is gearing up to release his first book in nearly two decades. Publishing giant Simon & Schuster announced ...

Things I would’ve been surprised to write a decade ago: I recently heard a new Macklemore song featuring KRS-One and produced by DJ Premier. In it, Mack finds his old backpack (that is to say, is ...