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If the Nobel Award for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated even though many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most renowned book award be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn't even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In Why Bob Dylan Matters, Harvard professor Richard F. Thomas right answers this question with magisterial erudition. A global expert on classical poetry, Thomas was initially ridiculed by his acquaintances for educating a course on Bob Dylan alongside his traditional workshops on Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. Dylan's Nobel Award brought him vindication, and he immediately found himself thrust in to the spotlight as a respected academic voice in all concerns Dylanological. Today, through his wildly popular Dylan workshop - affectionately dubbed "Dylan 101" - Thomas is presenting a new generation of followers and scholars to the revered bard's work. This witty, personal size is a distillation of Thomas' famous course and makes a persuasive circumstance for moving Dylan out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Popularity and in to the pantheon of classical poets. Asking us to reflect on the question "why is a classic?", Thomas provides an eloquent debate for Dylan's modern relevance while interpreting and decoding Dylan's lyrics for listeners. One of the most original and persuasive size on Dylan in generations, Why Bob Dylan Matters will illuminate Dylan's benefit the Dylan neophyte and the seasoned fanatic similar. You may never think about Bob Dylan just as again.
