{"id":25276,"date":"2016-10-13T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=25276"},"modified":"2016-10-13T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:36:24","slug":"bob-dylan-wins-the-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/10\/bob-dylan-wins-the-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n

The Peace Prize for \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind\u201d and \u201cMasters of War\u201d? \u00a0No. \u00a0The Chemistry Prize for his duets with Joan Baez? \u00a0No. \u00a0The Prize for Music? \u00a0There is no prize for music. \u00a0He won the Prize for Literature.<\/p>\n

OK, even many of us\u00a0Dylan fans responded to the news with a \u201chuh?\u201d \u00a0Are songwriters to be counted in the ranks of\u00a0novelists, dramatists, and poets? \u00a0Well, why not? \u00a0Poetry used to be accompanied by music anyway, which is why we call it \u201clyric.\u201d \u00a0And Dylan is nothing if not a poet.<\/p>\n

So congratulations to the one true Bob. \u00a0And I hope that Pete, our resident Dylan scholar here at the Cranach Institute, weighs in. \u00a0I can\u2019t wait to hear what Dylan will\u00a0say at his acceptance speech.<\/p>\n

From \u00a0Nobel Prize In Literature 2016: Bob Dylan, Titan Of American Music, Claims Literary Award : The Two-Way : NPR<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bob Dylan<\/a> has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. In doing so, the prolific musician became the first American to win the prize in more than two decades. Not since novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993 has an American claimed the prize.<\/p>\n

Dylan won the prize \u201cfor having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,\u201d according to the citation by the Swedish Academy, the committee that annually decides the recipient of the Nobel Prize. The academy\u2019s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, announced the news Thursday.<\/p>\n

The win comes as something of a shock. As usual, the Swedish Academy did not announce a shortlist of nominees, leaving the betting markets to their best guesses. And while Dylan has enjoyed perennial favor as an outside shot for the award, few expected that the musician would be the first to break the Americans\u2019 long dry spell \u2014 not least because he made his career foremost on the stage, not the printed page.<\/p>\n

Yet few would argue Dylan has been anything but influential, both in the U.S. and beyond its borders. The prolific singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has produced dozens of albums, including The Freewheelin\u2019 Bob Dylan<\/em>, Highway 61 Revisited<\/em> and Blood on the Tracks<\/em>. His track \u201cLike a Rolling Stone\u201d has taken on mythic standing in the decades since its release; many, including Dylan himself, have pointed to it as emblematic of a sea change<\/a> in American music.<\/p>\n

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