Essays on Bob Dylan

The Death of Emmett Till and Mississippi Goddam In a time in American history when inequality was the leader of our country and murder and violence were an everyday occurrence, Emmett Till was a fourteen year-old boy who was visiting Mississippi when he allegedly flirted...

Bob Dylan on Drugs – Before, During, and After Many people and events throughout Bob Dylan’s life influenced his song writing, performances, lifestyle, and personality. One of these influences, as it was to many musicians, was drug use. To many artists, musicians, and even fans...

From “The Death of Emmett Till” to “Boots of Spanish Leather”, Suze Rotolo had immense amounts of inspiration in Bob Dylan’s songwriting as well as his pathway to folk music fame. Dylan also had a reciprocating influence on Rotolo, who ultimately would part ways with...

Music has constantly played an important role in constituting American culture. Music and media are an integral part of establishing cultural identity, which in turn plays a huge role in how history is written and recorded. This is a relatively contemporary phenomenon, which can be...

The most influential singer-songwriter of his era, Bob Dylan demonstrated that rock and roll lyrics, once known for their lightheartedness, could be rich, serious, and meaningful. Combining forms borrowed from folk ballad verse, blues, country and western, and gospel music and techniques gained from French...

One of the greatest honors that a literary figure could receive is the Nobel Prize in Literature, but what if this achievement is awarded to a singer instead of the traditional writer or poet? The Nobel Prize in Literature is a prize that is awarded...

Bob Dylan, a well-known, well-deserved singer-songwriter that most people know for their entire lifetime, is a global influencer that I am most admired. He was born with the name Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota. Up until now, with many experience...

Here I am, looking for things I might have missed, searching vividly for a theme in the films of Bob Dylan. Where do I start? Who is Bob Dylan? It’s a common theme of everything I’ve analyzed, Bob Dylan is a mysterious, yet interesting man....

Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy in 8th grade at the McCosh school, was visiting his cousins in Money, Mississippi during August 1955. He was originally from Chicago, and he lived with his mother. On August 24, he went into a grocery store to...