Bob Dylan will accept the Nobel Prize in Literature at a private meeting Stockholm and will send a taped acceptance lecture.
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The Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan is the Nobel committee's first literature prize to a musician, an almost revolutionary break with tradition. Dylan’s originality as a surrealist lyricist was elevated by his engagement with profound social and political themes.
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Already at 22, Dylan rasps out images in A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall that are elliptical, prophetic, apocalyptic and uncompromising. If this isn't poetry, what is?
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Odetta brings the haunting refrain of one of Bob Dylan's most radical songs about war, inequality and oppression: Things like that don't happen / No more, nowadays.
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Bob Dylan's prophetic protest, with contemporary video.
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