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The Political World of Bob Dylan

Part of the Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137477477

ISBN: 978-1-137-48234-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 21, 2015

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Chapter 1Bob Dylan’s Roots and Traditional World

Taylor, Jeff; Israelson, Chad

Pages: 1 –41

[From a purely statistical standpoint, Bob Dylan—Jewish and hail ing from Minnesota’s Iron Range—should reliably vote Democratic. Loath to have labels put upon him, his political outlook cannot be reduced to statistics. Dylan’s political world has proved too broad and independent to be classified...
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Chapter 2Voice of a Generation

Taylor, Jeff; Israelson, Chad

Pages: 43 –91

[Over a long and remarkable career, Bob Dylan expressed populist, traditionalist, and egalitarian beliefs. What Dylan called the “‘finger-pointin’” songs from his early 1960s folk style fostered an image that he was a protest singer. His artistic output during this period dovetailed with the...
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Chapter 3Freedom and Justice

Taylor, Jeff; Israelson, Chad

Pages: 93 –126

[During the years following World War II, the notion of freedom in America manifested itself in a myriad of new ways. There were Freedom Schools, a Freedom Summer, Free Speech Movement, free love, free markets, and Young Americans for Freedom. To some, particularly those on the Left, freedom was...
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Chapter 4Conversion and Culture

Taylor, Jeff; Israelson, Chad

Pages: 127 –150

[The relationship between Christ and Caesar, between the Church and the World, has been the subject of thought, debate, and sometimes bloodshed for thousands of years. Each side claims to hold a trump card of allegiance, whether natural or supernatural. Conflicting loyalties can cause problems...
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Chapter 5Christian Anarchism

Taylor, Jeff; Israelson, Chad

Pages: 151 –172

[The pairing of the words Christian and Anarchism may seem an unlikely, if not impossible, marriage of ideas. Is not Christianity the defender of order and tradition? Do not God and Country fit together as appropriately as Mom and Apple Pie? What could anarchism, with its bombs and chaos, have to...
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Chapter 6Dylan and the Jesus People

Taylor, Jeff; Israelson, Chad

Pages: 173 –199

[It may be interesting to see how the Jesus Movement exemplified Christian anarchism in the 1960s and 1970s but the examination does not mean much for us if we cannot link Bob Dylan to the Jesus Movement. Information about the political thought and practice of the Jesus People is important in a...
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Chapter 7Dylanesque Politics in the Real World

Taylor, Jeff; Israelson, Chad

Pages: 201 –234

[“All or Nothing—or Little” may be an interesting abstraction but what relevance does it have for the real world? Successful politi. cians do not go around calling themselves Christian anarchists. Even Christian politicians are discreet and selective in talking about the lordship of Christ. They...

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