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Fast Forward Bob Dylan Gets His Nobel Prize In Small Stockholm Ceremony
(JTA) – American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has received his Nobel diploma and his gold Nobel medal in Stockholm. The Swedish Academy met on Saturday with Dylan in a private ceremony in order to present him with the trappings of his Nobel Prize for Literature, Sara Danius, secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Sunday in a…
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Culture Bob Dylan Archive Now Open For Research
In 2016, the University of Tulsa and George Kaiser Family Foundation purchased a sizeable collection of Bob Dylan’s personal papers, recordings, artwork, memorabilia and more. The collection, which includes over 6,000 items, is now open to select researchers. The Bob Dylan Archive, which is housed at The University of Tulsa’s Helmerich Center for American Research,…
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Fast Forward Bob Dylan To Accept Nobel Prize This Weekend — Yes, Finally
Bob Dylan, Professional Enigma, will finally accept his Nobel Prize for Literature this weekend. Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which issues the awards, announced the news in a blog post. Dylan, she wrote, would accept the award while in Sweden to perform two concerts; the Swedish Academy, she said, would attend one…
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Fast Forward Bob Dylan Will Finally Pick Up His Nobel Prize In Stockholm
(JTA) — American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will receive his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm. The Swedish Academy will hand over his Nobel diploma and Nobel medial in a “small and intimate” setting and no media will be present, Sara Danius, secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Wednesday in a blogpost. Dylan is scheduled to…
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Culture Bob Dylan Reveals Love For Amy Winehouse, ‘I Love Lucy,’ And — Possibly — Kabbalah
Woe to the soul who dares to assume they can make sense of Bob Dylan. In a new Q & A with the Nobel Prize-winning singer and songwriter, published by Dylan’s website in advance of the release of his three-disc set of standards, “Triplicate,” Bill Flanagan attempted to get the great man to reveal some…
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Culture How Milton Glaser Created The Most Iconic Bob Dylan Poster
In a famous line from the movie “Mean Girls,” one character remarks that another’s hair is “so big” because “it’s full of secrets.” Viewing Milton Glaser’s iconic poster of Bob Dylan, in which the musician appears in silhouette, hair a kaleidoscopic swirl, one might wonder at the significance of the coiffeur. Is it billowing with…
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Culture 50 Cover Versions Of ‘Stardust’ That Are Better Than Bob Dylan’s — And Three That Aren’t
Pardon us for not losing our minds with excitement over Bob Dylan’s much-praised new recording of Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust,” which was released late last week as a preview of Triplicate, his three-album set of American standards that’s due out at the end of March. Sure, Dylan has long earned the right to do whatever the…
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Culture LISTEN: In New Single, Bob Dylan Revisits An Old Love
Enigmatic, husky-voiced, Nobel Prize-winning Bob Dylan is at it again, with a new album, “Triplicate,” arriving at the end of this month. In a newly-released single off that album, Dylan’s take on Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust,” the singer takes a hazy look back at a lost love. “Sometimes I wonder,” Dylan sings, “why I spend my…
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