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Article: BOB DYLAN'S AMERICAN JOURNEY.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- November 27, 2004
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Among the letters, articles and artifacts at Seattle's Experience Music Project's new Bob Dylan exhibit is a September 1967 review in The New York Times. It begins: "It will be a good joke on us if, in 50 years or so, Dylan is regarded as a significant figure in English poetry."
Hah, hah.
The college courses and lectures on his music, the scholarly interpretations of his lyrics, and his repeated Nobel Prize nominations years ago cemented his reputation as more than a song-and-dance man. Now comes "Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966," the first major museum exhibit dedicated to his work.
"There's cultural and political significance to Dylan's music of that ...