1. Ray B. Browne, “Folk Cultures and the Humanities,” in Rejuvenating the Humanities, ed. Ray B. Browne and Marshall Fishwick (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992), 24.
2. Ray B. Browne, “Redefining the Humanities,” in Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship into the Twenty-First Century, ed. Marilyn F. Motz et al. (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1994), 249.
3. Richard M. Dorson, ed., Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 21.
4. Marcel Danesi, Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semiotics, 2nd ed. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 21.
5. Norman K. Denzin, Interpretive Interactionism. Vol. 16. Applied Social Research Methods Series (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1989), 127.
6. John P. Hewitt, Self and Society: A Symbolic Interactionist Social Psychology, 9th ed. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003), 37.
7. Ibid., 258.
8. Quoted in Clinton Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades: A Biography (New York: Summit Books, 1991), 239.
9. Ibid., 240; Dylan quoted, 240.
10. Quoted in ibid., 241.
11. Compare the two song versions: “If You See Her, Say Hello,” BobDylan.com, http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/if-you-see-her-say-hello; Dylan, Lyrics, 344.
12. Heylin, Dylan, 279.
13. Frank Kermode and Stephen Spender, “The Metaphor at the End of the Funnel,” in The Dylan Companion, ed. Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman (New York: Da Capo, 2001), 157.
14. Ibid., 159.
15. “Bob Dylan 101: Bob Dylan,” BobDylan.com, http://www.bobdylan.com/us/home.
16. Hewitt, Self and Society, 259.
17. Norman K. Denzin, Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies: The Politics of Interaction (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992), 2.
18. C. Wright Mills, Power, Politics and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills, ed. Irving Louis Horowitz (New York: Ballantine, 1963), 375.
19. Joel M. Charon, Symbolic Interactionism: An Introduction, An Interpretation, An Integration, 8th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004), 43.
20. Ibid., 50.
21. Denzin, Symbolic Interactionism, 85.
22. Bob Dylan, Chronicles (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 148.
23. Charon, Symbolic Interactionism, 158.
24. Robert Shelton, “Trust Yourself,” in The Dylan Companion, ed. Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman (New York: Da Capo, 2001), 295.
25. Stuart Ewen, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture (New York: Basic, 1976, 2001), 208.
26. Mark Tungate, Adland: A Global History of Advertising (London: Kogan Page, 2007), 60.
27. Quoted in ibid., 61.
28. Mary Wells Lawrence, A Big Life in Advertising (New York: Knopf, 2002), 70.
1. Quoted in Cameron Crowe, Liner Notes, Bob Dylan Biograph, Columbia, 1985, 3 CDs, 4.
2. Robert Shelton, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (New York: Da Capo, 1986, 2003), 30–31.
3. Tales from a Golden Age Bob Dylan, 1941–1966, directed by Tom O’Dowd (New Malden, Surrey, UK: Chrome Dreams, 2004), DVD.
4. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 232.
5. Howard Sounes, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (New York: Grove Press, 2001, 2011), 27.
6. Ibid., 43.
7. Sounes, Down the Highway, 50.
8. Dylan, Chronicles, 9.
9. Ibid.
10. Sounes, Down the Highway, 84.
11. Dylan, Chronicles, 244.
12. Quoted in Andy Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 1962–1969: My Back Pages (New York: Metro, 2009), 16.
13. Dylan, Chronicles, 229.
14. Shelton, No Direction Home, 105–16.
15. Ibid., 107.
16. Quoted in ibid., 115.
17. Dylan, Chronicles, 280.
18. Quoted in Anthony Scaduto, Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971), 105.
19. Sounes, Down the Highway, 119.
20. Quoted in Shelton, No Direction Home, 60.
21. Quoted in Sounes, Down the Highway, 58.
22. Dylan, Chronicles, 51.
23. Ibid., 55.
1. Clinton Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades: A Biography (New York: Summit Books, 1991), 64–67.
2. Dylan, Chronicles, 82–83.
3. Scaduto, Bob Dylan, 134–45.
4. Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 23.
5. Christopher Ricks, Dylan’s Vision of Sin (New York: Ecco, 2003), 321, 322.
6. Clinton Heylin, Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan 1957–1973 (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009), 77–78.
7. Scaduto, Bob Dylan, 146.
8. Shelton, No Direction Home, 212.
9. Heylin, Bob Dylan, 90.
10. Joseph Hass, “Interview with Joseph Hass, Chicago Daily News November 27, 1965,” in Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews, ed. Jonathan Cott (New York: Wenner Books, 2006), 57.
11. Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 38.
12. Nigel Williamson, The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan (New York: Penguin, 2006), 37.
13. Quoted in ibid.
14. Quoted in Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 38.
15. Ibid., 47.
16. Heylin, Bob Dylan, 82–84.
17. Howard Sounes, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (New York: Grove Press, 2001, 2011), 140–41.
18. Scaduto, Bob Dylan, 135.
19. Jim Miller, “Bob Dylan,” in The Dylan Companion, ed. Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman (New York: Da Capo, 2001), 25.
20. Heylin, Bob Dylan, 71, 72.
21. Suze Rotolo, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties (New York: Broadway Books, 2008), 273–74.
22. Nat Hentoff, “The Crackin’, Shakin’, Breakin’ Sounds,” in Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, ed. Benjamin Hedin (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 25–26.
23. Shelton, No Direction Home, 222.
24. Heylin, Revolution, 190.
25. Ibid., 196.
26. Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 62.
1. Lyndon B. Johnson, “Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 4, 1965,” Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, http://www.lbjlibrary.net/collections/selected-speeches/1965/01-04-1965.html.
2. For a detailed examination of Johnson and his presidency, see Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (New York: Free Press, 2006).
3. D. A. Pennebaker, Bob Dylan Dont Look Back (New York: Ballantine, 1968, 2006), 5.
4. Sean Wilentz, Bob Dylan in America (New York: Doubleday, 2010), 157.
5. Quoted in Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 65.
6. Ibid., 68.
7. Bob Dylan, Lyrics, 1962–2001 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 142.
8. See the note referenced in Sounes, Down the Highway, 172, for further details.
9. Ibid., 174–75.
10. Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 65.
11. Daniel Mark Epstein, The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait (New York: Harper Perennial, 2011), 158–59.
12. Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 82.
13. Greil Marcus, Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads (New York: Public Affairs, 2006), 6.
14. Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 90.
15. Dylan, Lyrics, 184–85.
16. Ralph J. Gleason, “In Berkeley They Dig Bob Dylan,” in Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, ed. Benjamin Hedin (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 59.
17. Quoted in Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 81; emphasis in original.
18. Williamson, Rough Guide, 174.
19. Michael Coyle and Debra Rae Cohen, “Blonde on Blonde (1966),” in The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 143.
20. Quoted in Robert Hilburn, “Interview with Robert Hilburn, The Los Angeles Times April 4, 2004,” in Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews, ed. Jonathan Cott (New York: Wenner Books, 2006), 432.
21. Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 305.
22. Kevin Krein and Abigail Levin, “Just Like a Woman: Dylan, Authenticity, and the Second Sex,” in Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Thinking), ed. Peter Vernezze and Carl J. Porter (Chicago: Open Court, 2006), 55.
23. Marcus, Bob Dylan, 63.
24. Carrie Brownstein, “Blood on the Tracks (1975),” in The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 155.
25. For Dylan’s thoughts about “Like a Rolling Stone” and its meanings, including Dylan’s own assessment that the lyrics were “vomitific,” see Sounes, Down the Highway, 181–84.
26. “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” Rolling Stone, December 11, 2003, 88.
27. “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” Rolling Stone, December 12, 2009, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-20110516.
28. Bono, “No. 1 Like a Rolling Stone,” Rolling Stone, May 26, 2011, 56.
1. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 123.
2. Ibid., 124.
3. Quoted in Alfred G. Aronowitz, “Enter the King, Bob Dylan,” Saturday Evening Post, November 2, 1968, 35.
4. Bob Dylan, “Drifter’s Escape,” in Bob Dylan, Lyrics, 1962–2001 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 228.
5. Heylin, Revolution, 358.
6. John Cohen and Happy Traum, “Interview with John Cohen and Happy Traum, Sing Out! October/November 1968,” in Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews, ed. Jonathan Cott (New York: Wenner Books, 2006), 122.
7. Ibid., 125.
8. Quoted in Heylin, Bob Dylan, 194.
9. Dylan, Chronicles, 115.
10. Ibid., 116.
11. Heylin, Bob Dylan, 196.
12. Dylan, Chronicles, 123.
13. Ibid., 133.
14. Cameron Crowe, Liner Notes, Bob Dylan Biograph, Columbia, 1985, 3 CDs, 21.
15. Robert Shelton, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (New York: Da Capo, 1986), 202.
16. Greil Marcus, Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus (New York: Public Affairs, 2010), 7.
17. Ibid., 28.
18. Heylin, Bob Dylan, 215.
19. Shelton, No Direction Home, 477.
20. Ibid., 478.
21. Marcus, Bob Dylan, 88–90.
22. Heylin, Bob Dylan, 309.
23. Quoted in ibid., 311.
24. Quoted in Brian D. Johnson, “Springsteen Talks Dylan, Darkness and the ‘Survivor Guilt’ of Fame,” Macleans, http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/09/15/springsteen-talks-dylan-darkness-and-the-survivor-guilt-of-fame.
25. R. Clifton Spargo and Anne K. Ream, “Bob Dylan and Religion,” in The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 87.
26. Marcus, Bob Dylan, 95.
27. Heylin, Bob Dylan, 328.
28. Quoted in ibid., 316.
29. Spargo and Ream, “Bob Dylan,” 87.
30. Shelton, No Direction Home, 484.
31. Ibid., 485.
32. Sounes, Down the Highway, 351.
33. Quoted in Cohen and Traum, “Interview,” 137.
34. Lester Bangs, “Love or Confusion,” in Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, ed. Benjamin Hedin (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 156.
1. Dylan, Chronicles, 155.
2. Ibid., 156.
3. Kevin L. Stoehr, “You Who Philosophize Dylan: The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry in the Songs of Bob Dylan,” in Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Thinking), ed. Peter Vernezze and Carl J. Porter (Chicago: Open Court, 2006), 192.
4. Nat Hentoff, “Interview with Nat Hentoff, Playboy March 1966,” in Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews, ed. Jonathan Cott (New York: Wenner Books, 2006), 100.
5. Jordy Rocheleau, “‘Far Between Sundown’s Finish An’ Midnight’s Broken Toll’: Enlightenment and Postmodernism in Dylan’s Social Criticism,” in Bob Dylan and Philosophy, 71.
6. Dylan, Chronicles, 20.
7. Sounes, Down the Highway, 144.
8. Dylan, Chronicles, 71.
9. Andy Gill, Classic Bob Dylan, 1962–1969: My Back Pages (New York: Metro, 2009), 28.
10. Sounes, Down the Highway, 145.
11. Dylan, Chronicles, 220.
12. Jon Pareles, “A Jovial Dylan Celebrates Reopening of Capitol Theater,” New York Times, September 5, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/arts/music/a-jovial-dylan-celebrates-reopening-of-capitol-theatre.html?_r=2&Aadxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1374368164-OUzt9QlzYzVB+wkslKHjVA.
13. Dylan, Chronicles, 146.
14. Ibid., 148.
15. Ibid., 146.
16. Ibid., 152.
17. Ibid., 153.
18. Seth Stevenson, “Tangled Up in Boobs,” Slate Magazine, April 12, 2004, www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic.
19. Ibid.
20. Anthony DeCurtis, “Bob Dylan as Songwriter,” in The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 43.
21. Quoted in ibid., 43.
22. Ibid., 44.
23. David Dalton, Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan (New York: Hyperion, 2012), 2.
24. Ibid., 336–37.
1. Jon Pareles, “Dylan for a New Audience,” New York Times, December 14, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/14/arts/television-review-dylan-for-a-new-audience.html.
2. Paul Williams, Bob Dylan: Watching the River Flow: Observations on his Art-in-Progress, 1966–1995 (London: Omnibus Press, 1996), 224.
3. “Jack Nicholson Presents Bob Dylan with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards in 1991,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-gPnugmXP8.
4. Ronnie Schreiber, “Dylan’s Grammy Acceptance Speech Explicated,” Dylan & the Jews, http://www.radiohazak.com/Dylgramm.html.
5. “Bob Dylan Kennedy Center Honors,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79C8VhvBq1A.
6. Alex Ross, “The Wanderer,” in Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, ed. Benjamin Hedin (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 310.
7. Dylan, Lyrics, 566.
8. Sounes, Down the Highway, 417.
9. Edna Gundersen, “Bob Dylan’s Cadillac Ads are a Gas,” USA Today, October 21, 2007, http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007–10–21-dylan-cadillac_N.htm.
10. For a broader discussion of Dylan’s lyrics on “Love and Theft,” please see Sounes, 448–52.
11. Greil Marcus, Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus (New York: Public Affairs, 2010), 340.
12. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One, 9.
13. Ibid., 22.
14. Douglas Brinkley, “Bob Dylan’s America,” Rolling Stone, May 14, 2009, 45.
15. Dylan, Chronicles, 73.
16. Ibid., 32.
17. Ibid., 49.
18. Jonathan Lethem, “The Genius of Bob Dylan,” Rolling Stone, September 7, 2006, 80.
19. Marcus, Bob Dylan, 340–41.
1. Mikal Gilmore, “Bob Dylan: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone, September 27, 2012, 80.
2. Peter Travers, “The Performance of the Year,” Rolling Stone, November 15, 2007, 89.
3. Bob Dylan, “Thunder on the Mountain by Bob Dylan,” BobDylan.com, http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/thunder-mountain.
4. Douglas Brinkley, “Bob Dylan’s America,” Rolling Stone, May 14, 2009, 45.
5. Mikal Gilmore, “Bob Dylan,” 50.
6. Ibid.
7. Jody Rosen, “Older Than That Now: Dylan’s ‘Tempest,’ ” New Yorker, September 11, 2012, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/09/older-than-that-now-dylans-tempest.html.
8. Jonathan Lethem, “The Genius of Bob Dylan,” Rolling Stone, September 7, 2006, 80.
1. Eric Bulson, “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963),” in The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 126.
2. Michael Janover, “Nostalgias,” Critical Horizons 1, no. 1 (2000): 115.
3. Jason P. Leboe and Tamara L. Ansons, “On Misattributing Good Remembering to a Happy Past: An Investigation into the Cognitive Roots of Nostalgia,” Emotion 6, no. 4 (2006): 596.
4. Jon Pareles, “What Makes a Great Dylan Song?” Rolling Stone, May 26, 2011, 54.
5. Jim Cullen, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 7.
6. Dylan, Lyrics, 167–68.
7. Axel Honneth, “Liberty’s Entanglements: Bob Dylan and His Era,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 36, no. 7 (2010): 777.
8. Leboe and Ansons, “On Misattributing Good Remembering to a Happy Past,” 607.
9. Robert Shelton, “Trust Yourself,” in The Dylan Companion, ed. Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman (New York: Da Capo, 2001), 291.
10. Ibid., 292.
11. Gilmore, “Bob Dylan,” 50.
12. Nat Hentoff, “The Crackin’, Shakin’, Breakin’ Sounds,” 34.
13. Quoted in Shelton, No Direction Home, 197.
14. Dalton, Who Is That Man?, 329.
15. Mikal Gilmore, “Bob Dylan: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone, September 27, 2012, 46.
16. Ibid.
17. Nancy Bunge, “Bob Dylan’s Selves,” in Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, vol. 2, ed. Bob Batchelor (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012), 123.
18. Rotolo, A Freewheelin’ Time, 274.
19. Gilmore, “Bob Dylan,” 46.