{"product_id":"dreams-and-dialogues-in-dylans-time-out-of-mind-by-graley-herren-9781785278464","title":"Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s \"Time Out of Mind\"","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's distinguished artistic career. The present book interprets the songs recorded for \u003ci\u003eTime Out of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e as a series of dreams by a single singer\/dreamer. These dreams overlap and intermingle, but three primary levels of meaning emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn one level, the singer\/dreamer envisions himself as a killer awaiting execution for killing his lover. On another level, the song-cycle functions as religious allegory, dramatizing the protagonist's relentless struggles with his lover as a battle between spirit and flesh, earth and heaven, salvation and damnation. On still another level, \u003ci\u003eTime Out of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on American slavery and racism, Dylan's most personal encounter with the subject, but one tangled up in associations with the minstrelsy tradition and debates surrounding cultural appropriation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e marks the culmination of several recurring themes that have preoccupied Dylan for decades, and it serves as a pivotal turning point toward his late renaissance in terms of both subject matter and intertextual approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596298043628,"sku":"9781785278464","price":150.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781785278464-dreams-and-dialogues-in-dylan-s-time-out-of-mind.jpg?v=1777919905","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dreams-and-dialogues-in-dylans-time-out-of-mind-by-graley-herren-9781785278464","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}