BOB DYLAN “In the work of each performer there is an attempt to create oneself, to make a new man out of what is inherited and what is imagined; each individual attempt implies an ideal community...” This quote is from Greil Marcus in the book Mystery Train. Like the American character, Bob Dylan is inventive, innovative, and unpredictable. As a vocalist, he broke the barrier and tradition of performers having a well-defined voice by creating …showed first 75 words of 1190 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1190 total…He was innovative, inventive, and influential, and unpredictable, much like the American character. Bob Dylan broke down barriers and traditions and helped to shape the America we live in today. According to Marcus, “Country music was entertainment that made people feel better, as all true American folk music is before anything else, but at its deepest country music was a way of holding on to the values that were jeopardized by a changing postwar America.”