葛萊美獎、諾貝爾文學獎得主巴布·狄倫新書！ ✰ 巴布狄倫散文集登紐時暢榜！ 巴布狄倫評論歌曲，也吟詠人生百態，榮獲諾貝爾文學獎得主。 他費時十多年寫作本書，以逾60篇散文導覽美國現代流行樂壇等多位創作歌手的作品與理念。 於2010年開始構思動筆，寫下他對現代流行歌曲的看法與評論，其中包括對歌手Hank Williams、Nina Simone等多為歌手的歌曲分析，內含150多張珍貴照片，等於爬梳了美國流行音樂史。 The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence.