AJL16177 Dylan

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Čapek, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 18:00–19:40 G23
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJL01002 Practical English II || AJ01002 Practical English II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
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Course objectives
The course will consider the nature and development of Bob Dylan’s song writing and performing career for the last sixty years, focusing primarily on his work in the 1960s and 1970s but paying some attention to his later music and lyrics.
Learning outcomes
Participants completing the course should have gained a deeper and more detailed understanding both of Dylan’s unique lyric writing abilities and range of concerns as well as his complex relation to various aspects of American folk music, including its more recent commercialised varieties.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: March 4th:Introductory Week 2: March 11th:Folk singer: Bob Dylan; Freewheelin Bob Dylan Week 3: March 18th:Protest Singer? The Times They Are a Changin; Another Síde of Bob Dylan Week 4: March 25th:Prophetic singer: Bringing It All Back Home Week 5: April 1st:Drug-fuelled Rock Singer: Highway 61 Revisited; Blonde on Blonde Week 6: April 8th:READING WEEK : NO CLASS Week 7: April 15th:Folk-historian-singer: The Basement Tapes; John Wesley Harding Week 8: April 22nd: Country Singer: Nashville Skyline; New Morning; Billy the Kid Week 9: April 29th:Ballad singer: Planet Waves; Desire; Blood on the Tracks Week 10: May 6th: Religious singer: Street Legal; Saved; Slow Train Coming; Week 11: May 13th:Bootleg Singer: Oh Mercy; Infidels; Bootleg Albums (Songs:Blind Williams McTell/Dignity/Everythng is Broken/Series of Dreams/Ain't Talkin'/Misssissipi/Carribean Wind/ The Girl on the Greenbriars Shore/Angelina/Every Grain of Sand Week 12: May 20th:Late Dylan/Tin Pan Alley Song and Dance Man: Time out of Mind; Tempest (Songs:(Scarlet Town/Early Roman Kings/Tempest/Roll on John); Shadows in the Night; Fallen Angels; (Songs:(All the Way/All or Nothing At All/It Had TO Be You/I'm A Fool to Want You/Some Enchanted Evening) Week 13: May 27th:Still Angry After All These Years: Triplicate (Songs: Stormy Weather/ This Nearly Was Mine/As Time Goes By/How Deep Is The Ocean/The Best Is Yet To Come/Day In, Day Out/Sentmental Journey/When The World Was Young/These Foolish Things/You Go to My Head/Why Was I Born?; Rough and Rowdy Ways
Teaching methods
The course will be taught by a combination of close listening and reading, mini-lectures, and class discussion.
Assessment methods
Assessment will be by oral contribution and attendance (50%) and essay of 6-8 pages (double-spaced, size 12 print) (50%). Essays should be sent to my IS e-mail address (33697@muni.cz).
Language of instruction
English
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