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The Cambridge Bob Dylan Society - Next meeting

The next meeting of The Cambridge Bob Dylan Society will be held on Friday April 1 at The Red Lion at 33 High Street, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire CB3 9NF. Meetings are held on the first Friday of every other month. Click HERE for more details.

TCBDS Website: http://www.keme.co.uk/~nye/bobdylan.htm
Dates of Cambridge meetings: http://www.keme.co.uk/~nye/cambridge.htm

"In the time of my confession" - Memory, prayer and religious roots in the music of Bob Dylan, with Dr Malcolm Guite

Click here to read the lecture on Dylan (see title above) delivered for the Woolf Institute in Cambridge on Dec. 9th by Dr Malcolm Guite. Bob Dylan is one of the great literary/musical figures of the 20th century, important both as an icon of popular culture and one of the greatest poets working in English. Throughout his work he draws on Biblical material, both in light of his Jewish roots and up-bringing and his own spiritual journeyings which have explored Christian and Jewish faiths. This lecture explored both the depth and the fusion of his Jewish and Christian roots through close engagement with some of his finest songs. Dr Malcolm Guite is a poet and singer-songwriter. He is also a priest, chaplain, teacher and author on contemporary Christianity.

'Series of Dreams: the Vision Songs of Bob Dylan', by John Burns

In Series of Dreams: the Vision Songs of Bob Dylan John Burns looks at all of Dylan's major albums from the sixties to the present and sets out to show how Dylan transmutes philosophical and musical ideas into a visionary art that can change the way we feel and think about how we live. More information is available at http://www.glenmurraypublishing.co.uk/seriesofdreams.htm ISBN: 9780955318351 Paperback 130 pages Publication: 24 Nov 2008 Price: £12.99