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Rodgers, Michael
(2012).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.stealimage.3-1.5
Abstract
Bob Dylan's corpus is one continually engaged with appropriation and pilfering. This paper will look, predominantly, at three songs from his 1960s trilogy - She Belongs To Me' from Bringing It All Back Home (1965), 'Visions of Johanna' from Blonde on Blonde (1966), and 'Desolation Row' from Highway 61 Revisited (1965) - arguing that, in these songs, Dylan problematizes the interrelationship between art, theft, and ownership. I argue that, similar to the urban artist Banksy, Dylan challenges, toys with, and appropriates cultural images in order to continually question the concept of proprietorship whilst rescuing cultural images from esoterica and attempting to put them back into the public domain.
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- Item ORO ID
- 55176
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1918-8439
- Keywords
- Bob Dylan; proprietorship; concepts of ownership; property rights
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Depositing User
- Michael Rodgers