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Bob Dylan: Nobel Lecture
“When awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, Bob Dylan responded in his traditional, nontraditional way: he gave no comment for two weeks after the announcement, ignored the Academy’s calls, didn’t attend the ceremony, and collected the award in a hoodie four months later. But the Academy stipulates that winners must give a lecture within six months of the ceremony to collect their prize money, and Dylan slipped in a rambling, 27-minute ode to literature just under the wire.”
— From an article published in Radical Reads
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The recording of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture is included in Vox Populi by permission of the Nobel Foundation.
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Near the end of the speech, Dylan quotes poet John Donne, and then says: I don’t know what it means, either, but it sounds good, and you want your songs to sound good… [and]…tell the story.…
Between sounding good and telling his stories, and the intricacies of those dual inspirations, Dylan will keep Dylanologists busy interpreting for aeons. He is a true icon, and deserved the Nobel. I doff my hat to him.
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