Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Popular Music and Society
Volume
43
Issue
1
First Page
1
13
Publication Date
Winter 1-16-2019
Abstract
Bob Dylan’s song “Chimes of Freedom” marks a creative turning point in the evolution of his art. Dylan displays his debts to influential artists from Woody Guthrie to Allen Ginsberg, and he engages dialectically with iconic American artworks including “The New Colossus” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Dylan also works through his grief over the Kennedy assassination and wrestles with his increasingly complicated relationship with the American political Left. “Chimes of Freedom” is at once the high-water mark of Dylan’s achievement as a protest singer and his resignation letter as spokesperson for a political movement he had outgrown by 1964.
Recommended Citation
Herren, Graley, "The Twilight’s Last Gleaming: Dialogues and Debts in Bob Dylan’s "Chimes of Freedom"" (2019). Faculty Scholarship. 582.
https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/english_faculty/582
