{"id":2529,"date":"2017-10-31T09:19:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2017-10-31T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:19:49","slug":"bob-dylan-a-pop-culture-musician-that-even-oles-liked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/2017\/10\/31\/bob-dylan-a-pop-culture-musician-that-even-oles-liked\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan – a Pop-culture Musician that Even Oles Liked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan – https:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/bob-dylan-9283052<\/p><\/div>\n

Bob Dylan was (and still is to some extent) a folk icon. He was born on May 24th, 1941 in Duluth Minnesota and went on to have a remarkably successful career as a musician in both performing and songwriting. Sarcastic blog-post titles aside, it makes sense that St. Olaf’s student-run newspaper, the Manitou Messenger, would have mentioned Bob Dylan at some point. Sure enough, Laurie Dion wrote a short piece in 2001 titled\u00a0Bob Dylan rolls home like a rolling stone1<\/sup><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>In the piece, Dion does a post-concert write-up of Dylan’s performance at\u00a0St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center, where she says:<\/p>\n

“Dylan<\/span>\u00a0proved that his music remains “Forever Young.”\u00a0And after 40 years in the music world, he’s still got what it takes to electrify an audience of retirees and teenagers alike. . . .\u00a0Despite performing in his home state,\u00a0Dylan<\/span>\u00a0didn’t mention a word of his Minnesota past. He didn’t even bother to introduce his songs \u2014 he just let the songs speak for themselves.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over the course of three sentences, Dion manages to allude three times to Dylan’s timelessness, which I believe is an important part of his appeal. The fact that multiple generations can enjoy hearing Dylan perform his music – which is itself a smorgasbord of different styles – is a testament to his timelessness, something which only a rare few musicians achieve. Does this mean that Dylan has secured his place in the pantheon of great musicians forever? Only time will tell. However, if one wanted to hear his music themselves, and in vinyl format no less, one need look no further than St. Olaf’s own Halvorson music library2<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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1<\/a>\u00a0Bob Dylan rolls home like a rolling stone – Laurie Dion<\/a><\/p>\n

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2<\/a>\u00a0We are the world : the historic recording, plus nine new superstar songs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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