{"id":1203,"date":"2016-10-13T09:10:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2017-04-24T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T17:15:18","slug":"dylan-the-man-who-knows-which-way-the-wind-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"Dylan: The Man Who Knows Which Way the Wind Blows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MGxjIBEZvx0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"_5x46\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"js_8\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<div id=\"id_57ff968747f073e86936050\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p>&#8220;Better stay away from those<br \/>\nThat carry around a fire hose<br \/>\nKeep a clean nose<br \/>\nWatch the plain clothes<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t need a weather man<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nTo know which way the wind blows&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014From &#8220;Subterranean Homesick Blues&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/14\/arts\/music\/bob-dylan-nobel-prize-literature.html?_r=0\">Nobel Committee&#8217;s decision<\/a> to honor folksinging musical legend Bob Dylan with a Nobel Prize in Literature is inspired.<\/p>\n<p>One of history&#8217;s most influential songwriters and lyricists,\u00a0 Bob Dylan<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> has meandered through the musical disciplines of folk and protest songs, blues, pop and rock and come out the other end with his own amalgam of raw, bleating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e7qQ6_RV4VQ\">authenticity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u-Y3KfJs6T0\">intimacy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=35gheud5xBo\">cynicism<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4F0ytNzHDj8\">wordplay<\/a>. It&#8217;s hard to think of a voice that has threaded its way into the world&#8217;s consciousness more powerfully over the past half century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Nobel Committee has long sought out fresh voices that speak to the human condition in original and insightful ways. In past years the committee has honored writers who have explored enduring topics including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mo_Yan\">folk tales<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toni_Morrison\">race and feminism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mario_Vargas_Llosa\">violence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Steinbeck\">poverty<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nadine_Gordimer\">segregation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seamus_Heaney\">myth<\/a> through <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer\">prose<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabindranath_Tagore\">poetry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Svetlana_Alexievich\">reportage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sinclair_Lewis\">social criticism.<\/a> This year marks the first time a Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to a musician for his lyrical output. Since the prize was established in 1901, the Nobel Committee has sought to celebrate voices that express eternal conflicts, awaken minds and deepen compassion, and the work of Bob Dylan encompasses all of these themes.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Dylan&#8217;s voice was the urgent social conscience of the 1960s. The stripped-down simplicity of his musical messages was disarming, yet he convinced the world to recognize folk as a sophisticated medium and a driving social force. With his storytelling, Dylan altered the way we think and hear, and in so doing he changed the world.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Better stay away from those That carry around a fire hose Keep a clean nose Watch the plain clothes You don&#8217;t need a weather man To know which way the wind blows&#8221; \u2014From &#8220;Subterranean Homesick Blues&#8221; The Nobel Committee&#8217;s decision to honor folksinging musical legend Bob Dylan with a Nobel Prize in Literature is inspired. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=1203\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dylan: The Man Who Knows Which Way the Wind Blows<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,25,24],"tags":[993,992,989,457,439,800,990,991,994],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}