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September 26, 2005
How much riper could a country be for pissed-off music?: Schama on Scorsese's Dylan
Of the yards of verbiage unfurled over Scorsese's PBS-BBC-DVD Dylan doc, next to Larry Gross' celebration, there's a lot worth the deciphering in Simon Schama's history in the Guardian, including: "Hermeneutics 101: the artist makes the world, but then again the world makes the artist, and heigh-ho round and round we go. Though Dylan insists that he just kinda happened along at the right time, he's right to acknowledge the hungriness of America - and Britain - for his wry take on, inter alia, injustice, hypocrisy and thermonuclear angst. So while [Irish folksinger Liam] Clancy, in a nice aside, says that "lightning strikes every once in a while in a different place, no one knows why", it's not that hard to figure that a country on the brink of nuclear war might well turn jitters into musical fury. At the height of the Cuban missile crisis, Roger Cohen remembers singing at the Gaslight with Dylan, "You're going to miss me when I'm gone," and thinking, "Wait a minute, there isn't going to be anybody left to miss us!" Then followed in succession: the assassination of the president, the violent resistance to the civil rights movement, and a deluded, unwinnable war which mowed down an entire generation. How much riper could a country possibly be for pissed-off music?"
Posted by pride at September 26, 2005 11:31 AM
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