The Philosophy of Modern Song Audiobook, by Bob Dylan Play Audiobook Sample

The Philosophy of Modern Song Audiobook

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Read By: Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Alfre Woodard, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, others, Sissy Spacek, Steve Buscemi, Renée Zellweger Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781398520677

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

68

Longest Chapter Length:

11:58 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

57 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

05:51 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

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Its lavishly and wittily illustrated 350 pages are an excuse for the great man to write with joyful zest, piercing profundity and flamboyant imagination about whatever crosses his mind, offering startlingly and frequently laugh-out-loud riffs on art and life…  This book is lightning in a bottle’ 

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Quotes

  • “It’s a moving experience to hear this musical and literary giant deliver his takes on these iconic songs. His artistic and social sensibilities are in high gear, and the other remarkable cast members all narrate with equal engagement and charisma…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

    — AudioFile
  • “This is absolutely one of the best books about popular music ever written.”

    — Variety
  • “[A] rich, riffy, funny, and completely engaging book of essays.”

    — New Yorker
  • “A series of rhapsodic observations on what gives great songs their power to fascinate us.”

    — New York Times
  • “An homage to songwriting by the master of the art.”

    — AARP Magazine
  • The acidity, acuity and cynicism in [Dylan’s] writing is to be expected (indeed, welcomed). It is the love, enthusiasm, whimsicality and lightly worn wisdom that delight too. That, and the sheer depth and breadth of his dogged scholarship and restless inquisitiveness’  

  • Discursive, unpredictable, but always illuminating. Characteristically Dylan, in fact…  It is not just the breadth of Dylan’s musical knowledge on display here, but the depth of his listening.  He has an unerring ability to pinpoint what sets a song – or a singer, or a group – apart’  

Awards

  • Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
  • A #1 Amazon bestseller in Music
  • A New York Times bestseller
  • An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year

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About Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is one of the most lauded songwriters and performers of all time. A musical and cultural icon since his debut in the 1960s, he has written more than six hundred songs and sold more than one hundred million records around the world. In addition to his numerous awards for songwriting and performance, he was granted a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his profound impact on popular music and American culture. Expanding from his lyric writing background, Dylan has authored numerous books showcasing his unique blend of poetry and prose.

About the Narrators

Jeff Bridges has starred in many of the most beloved films of our time, including The Last Picture Show, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Starman, The Fisher King, Fearless, American Heart, The Big Lebowski, The Contender, Seabiscuit, and True Grit, which earned Bridges the 2011 Academy Award for Best Actor.

Charlayne Woodard is a film, stage, and television actress, as well as a playwright. She is best known for her recurring roles as Janice on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Vonda on Roseanne, and Sister Peg on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She was one of the original cast members in the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, and in 2009, starred in a one-person performance called The Night Watcher at Primary Stages in New York City. 

Dame Helen Lydia Mirren is an award-winning English actor of stage, screen, and television. She began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and is one of the few performers who have achieved the triple crown of acting, having won the movie industry’s Academy Award for Best Actress, Broadway’s Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, and television’s Emmy Award for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the acclaimed series Prime Suspect. She is also an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator.

Kiff VandenHeuvel, voice talent and audiobook narrator, is originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is an alumni of the Second City comedy theater. He is an accomplished improviser and sketch comedy director, and he teaches voice-over, improv, and directing at Second City Hollywood. He has appeared in hundreds of television and radio commercials and is well known in the video game community as the voice of Zachary Hale Comstock in Bioshock: Infinite.

Sissy Spacek is an Academy Award–winning American actress and singer. She has appeared in a number of films, including Badlands, Carrie, and Coal Miner’s Daughter, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. She has also received Oscar nominations for her roles in MissingThe RiverCrimes of the Heart, and In the Bedroom.