Bob dylan in america by sean wilentz6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Dylan, though, can get disoriented and nearly overwhelmed by the unexpected. This is surely the reason, I imagine, why Dylan pressed Brinkley for all that he knows about what happened at Sand Creek (which turns out to have been be much less than Dylan had already learned from his studies.).Ī trained historian commonly dives into sources with a particular topic or line of narrative in mind and can block out the rest. That’s its own kind of truth.” Yet to discover and express that kind of truth requires knowing as much as you can about what actually happened, as much as any historian might hope to. “What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. “A songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful,” he told an interviewer in 2012. Doctorow if Emma Goldman and Evelyn Nesbit ever met, as they do in his novel Ragtime, Doctorow replied, “They have now.” That’s the spirit Dylan works into his songs. Dylan is no stickler for the kind of factual accuracy that the historian’s craft demands but that the songwriter’s safely ignores. What Dylan takes from the past obviously isn’t the same as what the average historian does the differences and the similarities are equally important. ![]()
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