Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World

Contributors

John Barner is a professional drummer and a graduate student at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on political sociology and culture, specifically the impact of popular media on the historical and contemporary growth and development of social and political movements. Daphne Brooks is associate professor of English and African-American studies at Princeton University. She is author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910 and Jeff Buckley’s Grace. Court Carney is assistant professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University and is currently completing a book on the diffusion of jazz in the 1920s. His other projects include articles on Civil War memory, jazz in New Orleans, and the rock band Wilco. Alessandro Carrera is professor of Italian studies at the University of Houston. He has published La voce di Bob Dylan. Una spiegazione dell’America and translated Chronicles, Volume 1, Lyrics 1962–2001, and (with Santo Pettinato) Tarantula into Italian. He has received the Montale Prize for Poetry (1993), the Loria Prize for Short Fiction (1998), and the Bertolucci Prize for Literary Criticism (2006), awarded by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci. Michael Cherlin is professor of music theory and composition and founding director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Collaborative Arts at the University of Minnesota. He is a coeditor and contributor to The Great Tradition: Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe as well as author of Schoenberg’s Musical Imagination. Marilyn J. Chiat received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Minnesota. She has published four books and numerous articles on religious art and architecture. 263 Contributors As the director of the Project to Document Jewish Settlers in Minnesota, she conducted extensive research on Jewish settlers on Minnesota’s Iron Range, particularly in the four communities with synagogues (Chisholm, Hibbing, Eveleth, and Virginia). Susan Clayton is a Twin Cities art historian and critic who focuses on Minnesota artists and arts institutions. She is a former curator at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. She grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, where she worked as assistant to the director of the Hibbing Historical Society. Mick Cochrane was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of The Girl Who Threw Butterflies, Flesh Wounds (a finalist in Barnes and Noble’s annual Discover Great New Writers competition), and Sport (Minnesota, 2003). He is professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. Thomas Crow is Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. He is contributing editor to Artforum and author of numerous books on art and art history, including The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent. He served as director of the Getty Research Institute from 2000 to 2007. Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair of English at Pomona College . He is author or editor of books on James Joyce and modernism and general editor of the classroom text The Longman Anthology of British Literature. In popular music studies, he coedited Reading Rock & Roll and published most recently Is Rock Dead? He is editor of the Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. Sumanth Gopinath is assistant professor of music theory at the University of Minnesota . He is working on two book projects, one on issues of race and ethnicity in Steve Reich’s music and another on the global ring tone industry. Charles Hughes is a Ph.D. candidate in the history department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is interested in intersections between race, politics, and musical culture in twentieth-century America. His research concerns the relationship between soul and country music in the American South, and his work has appeared in a variety of academic and journalistic publications. He is also a musician and songwriter. C. P. Lee is a writer, musician, broadcaster, and academic based at the University of Salford, Manchester, England, where he teaches cultural studies in the School of Media, Music, and Performance. The author of several books on popular music and two on Bob Dylan in particular, he attended the infamous Manchester Free Trade Hall “Judas!” concert in 1966 and is still getting over it. 264 / Contributors Contributors / 265 Alex Lubet is Morse Alumni/Graduate and Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, Jewish Studies, and American Studies at the...