Dreams and dialogues in Dylan's Time out of mind

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Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1-4 -- Chapter 1 Dreams And Dialogues -- A Series of Speeches -- Production -- Reception -- A Series of Interviews -- Dreaming in Dylan -- A Series of Dreams -- Parameters and Approach -- Chapter 2 Murder Ballads -- The Murder Ballad Tradition -- Dylan's Murder Ballads -- Love Sickness -- Somnicide -- Sleepwalking to the Gallows -- Defanging the Big Bad Wolf -- Chapter 3 Religious Allegory -- Allegory and Allegoresis -- Dylan's AllegoriesFrom the Red River to the Red Sea -- The Pilgrim's Progress and Regress -- The Ballads of Job and Lucifer -- The Crucifixion Blues -- Crossing the Metaphysical Midlands -- Chapter 4 Race In America -- Emmett Till -- Then and Now -- Essentialism ↔ Appropriation ↔ Hybridity -- Seeing, Hearing and Telling the Blues -- Marching and Dreaming -- Fugitive Slave Narrative -- The Land Where the Blues Began -- End Matter -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Dreams and Dialogues -- Chapter 2 Murder Ballads -- Chapter 3 Religious Allegory -- Chapter 4 Race in America -- Bibliography -- Song Credits -- Works Cited -- IndexThis book studies Bob Dylan's album Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams. These dreams work on three distinct levels: as murder ballads about a killer awaiting execution, as religious allegory about a protagonist torn between salvation and damnation, and as meditation on race and music in America.Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 13, 2021).