1. The sale of Bob Dylan's massive catalogue of 6,000 songs to Universal Music is a reminder of his towering impact not just as a singer but also as songwriter. Next to the Beatles, no other modern songwriter has been so frequently covered.
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3. Dylan's own quirky voice & persona has something to do with how widely covered he's been: lacking slickness & polish, his voice invites emulation: it suggests that there is no definitive version of a song & anyone can take it up.
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4. In the early 20th century the songsters of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley (Gershwin & company) created the canon now called The Great American Songbook. Dylan's 600 songs deserve to be seen as the Second Great American Songbook. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/dylan-sold-catalogue-songbook/ …
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Not sure how that jibes with selling it all to a media conglomerate who will lock it down and license it for as much as possible for the rest of Dylan's life plus 70 years after. Locking down culture probably for another 100 years.
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Brill Building was the heir to Tin Pan Alley's tradition.
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When Dylan started out, folk music was a consciously communal movement. Dylan would publish songs in Sing Out! instead of recording them, he would participate in the workshops at the Newport Folk Festival, etc.
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The turn to individualism came when he switched to rock music. This was a general tendency in rock music; the conflict can be seen when the Newport Festival tried to incorporate rock (cf. "Newport: You Can't Go Down Home Again," Ellen Willis.)
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