Sheehy (director and CEO, Plains Art Museum, Fargo) and Swiss (culture and teaching, U. of Minnesota) have collected these essays on Bob Dylan's career to emphasize his global influences on
such countries as Japan, the UK and Italy, to explore his youth in Minnesota and to assess his latest works in the 21st century. Contributors from the fields of musicology, linguistics,
history, poetry, feminism and cultural studies apply Dylan's importance to a broad context of popular culture to support the idea that "Dylanology" has evolved into a more formal discipline.
Fans of Dylan as well as formal scholars will appreciate assessments of Dylan's latest albums, Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home and a tour of Dylan's hometown of Hibbing,
Minnesota. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
