Syllabus
Songs, via Amazon Music
Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
Note: in class three, we’ll be watching two videos in the place of the first two songs on this playlist:
- Maggie’s Farm at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival (Dylan goes electric).
- Subterranean Homesick Blues from D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary Don’t Look Back
Class 4
Class 5
Reference material
Books
- Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Philippe Margotin
- Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews by Jonathan Cott
- Dylan’s Visions of Sin, by Christopher Ricks
- Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald
- Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years by Eric von Schmidt
- The Story Is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories by Bruce Jackson
Movies
- Don’t Look Back (1967)
- I’m Not There. (2007)
- Eat the Document
- No Direction Home (2005)t (1972). Unreleased, available on YouTube.
- Woody Guthrie Tribute Concert (YouTube clips)
- Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited Documentary
Several of these videos are available on my YouTube channel, WISE: Becoming Bob Dylan