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Article: Dylan and Tradition.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 20, 2001
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To greybeards nostalgic for their granola days, Bob Dylan's 60th birthday was a poignant reminder of how long in the tooth they're getting. To less nostalgic souls, the sight of another 1960s icon confronting age is a welcome rebuke to the arrogance of youth- especially that cohort of youth. Either way, Dylan is once again being touted as the bellwether of his generation.
Like most of his musical peers, Dylan started out in the folk movement of the early 1960s, which was rooted in the Old Left of the 1930s; he then turned inward to embrace the psychosexual liberationism of the New Left. As the 1960s faded, he embarked on a 30-year quest for meaning that by a ...