Presentation of Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan is American singer and songwriter.

1. Bob Dylan
Presented by
● Archana Dave
● Insiyafatema Alvani
● Mansi Gujadiya
● Nirali Dabhi
● Payal Bambhaniya
● Pooja Bhuva
● Rajeshvariba Rana
● Riddhi Rathod
● Rinkal Dangar
● Trushali Dodiya
● Upasana Goswami

2. Points to ponder
★ Introduction
★ Biography
★ Major Themes of his writings
★ Bob Dylan and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Critical Lyricist in the Age
of High Capitalism By Tony Fluxman
★ Genre
★ Instruments
★ Writing Style
★ Awards and Achievements
★ Notable works
★ Comparison - Dylan and Gulzar
★ Conclusion

3. ● An American singer-songwriter, often regarded
as one of the greatest songwriters of all time,
● Original Name Robert Allen Zimmerman.
● Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in
Duluth, Minnesota.
● He grew up in the city of Hibbing.
● As a teenager, he played in various bands and
with time his interest in music deepened, with a
particular passion for American folk music and
blues.

4. ● One of his idols was the folk singer Woody Guthrie.
● He was also influenced by the early authors of the Beat (literary movement
started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American
culture and politics in the post-war era) Generation, as well as by modernist
poets.
● Moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll
● The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan "for having
created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
● Songs are rooted in the rich tradition of American folk music and are influenced
by the poets of modernism and the beatnik movement.

5. Major Themes of his writing
● War and Violence ex. ‘Blowin’ in the
wind’ and ‘Knocking on Heaven's Door’
● Protest
● Religion
● Love
● Moved from folk to rock music,, infusing
the lyrics of rock and roll

6. Bob Dylan and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Critical
Lyricist in the Age of High Capitalism
Tony Fluxman
❖ A Profound critic of the forms domination in late ‘Capitalist Society
❖ Protest Songs - Destructive effect of Enlightenment society, but songs doesn’t
provide overall character of this system
❖ Racist ideology - over white and black
❖ Sophisticated critical perspectives
❖ Mythical touches - Human situation s unchangeable
❖ Political criticism
❖ Thomas Gray argues that, Dylan’s aesthetic undergoes a profound change at all
the time.
❖ After this he doesn’t change his political ideology but it was replaced by social
critique

7. ❖ Social institutions are approached through the artist’s own experience.
❖ Self-criticism- personal realm- refuses involvement from confusion of the
society- evil mechanism of society
❖ Personal Truth
By this Research paper, we come to know about three critical stages in the works
of Bob Dylan
1. Political
2. Social
3. Self

8. Instruments
● Vocal
● Guitar
● Harmonica
● Keyboards
Genre
● Folk
● Blues
● Rock
● Gospel
● Country
● Traditional pop
● Jazz

9. ● His writing is known for its verbal dexterity, wit, social commentary,
and adept handling of metaphor and rhyme.
● His lyrics have had a profound influence on writers as well as other
musicians.
● Allen Ginsberg, on first hearing Dylan's music, wrote, “I heard 'Hard
Rain'—and wept”.
● He used simple rhyming scheme.
Writing Style:
● He is famous for his Poetry and Folk Music.

10. Award and Achievement
★ Nobel Prize in
Literature 2016 ★ Grammy Award for Album
of the Year- 1998, 1973
➔ Presidential Medal of
Freedom- 2012
★ Golden Globe Award for
Best Original Song - 2001
➔ Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres- 1990
➔ Pulitzer Prize Special
Citations and Awards-
2008

11. ➔ Academy Award for Best Original Song- 2001
➔ Kennedy Center Honors 1997
➔ Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1991
➔ Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance - 1998, 1980
➔ Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album- 2007,2002,1998
➔ Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance- 2007
➔ Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album- 1995
➔ Quill Award for Biography/memoir- 2005
➔ NME Award for Best Song Writer- 1976
★ Prepared by - Nirali Dabhi

12. Notable Works:-
★ “Another Side of Bob Dylan”
★ “Before the Flood”
★ “Blonde On Blonde”
★ “Blood on the Tracks”
★ “Bringing It All Back Home”
★ “Desire”
★ “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”
★ “John Wesley Harding”
★ “Nashville Skyline”
★ “Street-Legal”
★ “The Basement Tapes”
★ “The Times They Are
A-Changin’ ”
★ “Time Out of Mind”

13. JUST LIKE A WOMAN
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Everybody knows that baby's got
new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her
bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman
Yes, she does, she makes love just
like a woman
Yes, she does, and she aches just
like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
THE TIMES THEY ARE
A-CHANGIN’
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'
MR. TAMBOURINE MAN
And take me disappearing through
the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy
sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond
sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until
tomorrow
“All this talk about equality. The only
thing people really have in common is
that they are all going to die.”
“No one is free, even the
birds are chained to the
sky.”

14. • This is a very popular song.
• It is released on July 20, 1965 by Colombia record.
• This Poem is like revolutionary in its combination of
musical elements, the youthful, cynical sound of Dylan’s
voice.
• This song can be seen as a warning about the dangers of
living pointlessly, going along with the crowd, and not
treating others appropriately.
• This tells us there are benefits to being on the lower level
of society.
• It is Folk Rock.
• It is statistically the most acclaimed song of all time.
The Rolling Stones

15. ● Robert Allen Zimmerman
● Singer and Songwriter
● Academy Awards
● GMA Dove Awards
● Golden Globe Awards
● Grammy Awards
● Grammy Hall of Fame
● Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
● Nobel Prize for Literature
● The Woody Guthrie tradition and
Simple rhymes ABAB
● ‘Blowin' in the Wind’
● ‘A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall’
● Sampooran Singh Kalra
● Urdu Poet, Lyricist, Author,
Screenwriter, and film director.
● Sahitya Akademi Award
● Padma Bhushan
● Academy Award
● Grammy Award
● Dadasaheb Phalke Award
● Triveni Style of Stanza
● ‘Tujse Naraz Nhi Zindagi……’
● ‘Musafir hu Yaro…….’
● ‘Roz Roz Dali Dali……..’
American
-
Indian
BOB DYLAN GULZAR
Slide
Prepared
by
Pooja
Bhuva

16. Let's sum up…
“He Influenced my songwriting, of course. He Influenced
everybody's songwriting.”
- Tom Petty
-
“Bob Dylan, I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. If I
would like to be anyone, it's him.”
- Neil Young

17. Work Cited
❏ Fluxman, Tony. “Bob Dylan and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Critical
Lyricist in the Age of High Capitalism.” Theoria: A Journal of Social and
Political Theory, no. 77, 1991, pp. 91–111. JSTOR,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41801927. Accessed 13 Dec. 2022.