The Day Music Died:
Bob Dylan and the Death of JFK
Take a seminal moment in American history, add socio-political context and mix in a 17-minute song from the "bard of America's dream life" and you get a must-read piece from Liam Kennedy decoding Bob Dylan's latest offering:
"For many American writers, filmmakers and songwriters, Kennedy’s death marks an abysmal rupture in the fabric of the nation, a primal scene that has had ripple effects across American culture and politics to the present. And now Bob Dylan has revisited that scene.
Dylan is the bard of America’s dream life. He has been tapping into the national unconscious for nearly 60 years, projecting what Greil Marcus calls an “invisible republic” of alternative American realities, mythic landscapes and marginal lives. With “Murder Most Foul”, a sprawling elegiac ballad, he moves freely across that dreamscape, always circling back to Dallas in 1963, marking out its traumatic nature through compulsive return and repetition."
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