Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History Portelli Alessandro University of Rome
Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History Portelli Alessandro University of Rome Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical…
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Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History Portelli Alessandro University of Rome
Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Written at the height of the 1960s folk music revival amid the ferment of political activism, the song strongly resembles--and at the same time reimagines--a traditional European ballad sung from Scotland to Italy, known in the English-speaking world as "Lord Randal."Alessandro Portelli explores the power and resonance of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," considering the meanings of history and memory in folk cultures and in Dylan's work. A visionary warning of impending apocalypse, it sets symbolist imagery within a structure that recalls a centuries-old form.
Portelli recasts the song as an He examines how the ballad tradition to which "Lord Randal" belongs shaped Dylan's song and how Dylan drew on oral culture to depict the fears and crises of his own era.