About Man and God and Law, Stephen Daniel Arnoff
About Man and God and Law, Stephen Daniel Arnoff
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About Man and God and Law
The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan

Author: Stephen Daniel Arnoff

Narrator: Jim Denison

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/25/2024


Synopsis

About Man and God and Law is the story of how Bob Dylan sparked a revolution of the spirit and why it matters today.

Many of our assumptions about empathy, sensual pleasure, and the essence of work, community, country, race, and the divine have germinated in Bob Dylan's need to know what's blowing in the wind and how it feels. Tracing his work and vision through themes that have shaped religious and cultural history for millennia, Stephen Daniel Arnoff uncovers how Bob Dylan has re-enchanted ancient questions of meaning and purpose throughout popular culture, inspiring a pantheon of prophetic musicians along the way. This field guide to Dylan's spiritual wisdom aims to make good on the promise that if we look closely enough at his body of work—precisely at a moment when the world we thought we knew seems like uncharted territory—we can open up our eyes to see not only where we really are, but where we need to go.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on August 06, 2022

In this entertaining exegesis, Arnoff presents Dylan as a maddening "prophet" of a "congregation" finding in American music the home and community 0nce provided by religion. Dylan is "framing a mandate for musical salvation that repurposes the ancient art of memory and a mapping of America as landsc......more