New Bob Dylan essay book will be published in Portugal in November
In “The Philosophy of Modern Song”, the musician brings together 60 essays on the composition work of singers and musicians such as Nina Simone, Hank Williams and Elvis Costello.
A new book by the American musician Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, entitled “The Philosophy of Modern Song”, will be published in Portugal, by Relógio d’Água, in November, the same month it is released in the United States. .
According to the publisher, the Portuguese version will be translated by Pedro Serrano and Angelina Barbosa.
This is Bob Dylan’s first writing after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 2016, and the first book in 18 years, after having published in 2004 the bio “Chronicles, volume 1”.
In “The Philosophy of Modern Song”, the musician brings together 60 essays on the compositional work of singers and musicians such as Nina Simone, Hank Williams and Elvis Costello.
“Bob Dylan often reveals very technical, as over the years, addressing in detail, and ironically, issues such as the easiest ones or how adding a syllable can harm a song. But while they are about music, they are also really meditations on the human condition.”, reveals a Water Clock.
The book, which began to be written in 2010, also includes “a careful selection” of 150 photographs.
In the United States, the book will be published by the North American publisher Simon & Schuster, with the original title “The Philosophy of Modern Song”.
Bob Dylan, 80 years old, an inescapable figure in the history of American popular music, has almost 40 record albums – the last of which was released in 2020 – and more than 125 million records sold worldwide.
In 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for, according to Sueca, “having new poetic expressions within the scope of North American music”.
In Portugal, the author’s literary work was published by Relógio D’Água, namely the first (and so far only) volume of the autobiography, “Crónicas”, the experimental fiction book “Tarântula” (from 1966), and the two volumes of “Songs” (1962-1973 and 1974-2001).