Bob Dylan, poet, troubadour, composer and revolutionary – The Press of Honduras

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His real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman and he was born in Duluth, USA, on 24 may 1941.

the winner of The Nobel Prize 2016 to Literature, to Bob Dylan, is a singer, poet and composer of folk and rock. It is without doubt, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of contemporary. Revolutionized pop music with songs like Blowin' in the Wind, Maters of war, or Talkin' World War III blues and paved the way for singers and composers.

In 1965, joined his music to electrical instruments, and other sudden changes in the style and in addition spiritual, for which he received a lot of criticism from the lovers of the folk, whose singers were reflected in his songs of the civil rights movements and the Vietnam war, in full swing by that time. They believed that their music could combat ills of society such as injustice, inequality and war.

Also Bob Dylan conveyed with his lyrics of high poetic content messages that gave a new meaning to popular music. His songs of protest not only reflected the feelings of the people towards the contemporary issues, but the created, earning it the title of the voice of his generation.

Dylan doesn’t often give interviews, but in the few which has given the famous poet and singer questions the social differences, today such as unemployment, drugs, lack of job opportunities, and how this triggers more crime and the inability of companies to multi-million dollar to create new jobs, because, according to him, it is not the Government who should do so.

he Says: "There are a lot of things that are wrong in America, and especially in the inner cities, that they could be resolved. It is dangerous ground, and doesn’t have to be. There are good people, but it has been oppressed by lack of work. All of these people may be working on something. These billionaires can create industries here in America, but no one can tell you what to do. God has to lead them".

Today, the life of people is full of vices, and your pageantry. The ambition, greed and selfishness have to do with vice. Sooner or later you’ll have to see through it or not you survive. We do not see how the people is destroyed by the defect. We only see his glamour, wherever you look, from ads to films, newspapers, magazines. We see the destruction of human life. These songs ("Shadows In the Night") are anything but that."

By what won the Nobel prize

The singer, who has won multiple Grammy awards, this 2016 amounted to the largest and most unexpected award: the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Academy justified its decision otorgárselo claiming that Dylan "has created a new poetic expressions within the tradition of the great american song". This recognition has led to reactions, because this is not an actual writer, but a composer and a singer.

according To the web page of the Nobel peace prize, the award is not given out to just anyone. "If someone receives an award in literature is because it has created literature."

Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Nobel Committee, says that "Dylan is a great poet in the tradition of the English language" and due to this reason he won the award. In addition, it ensures that the singer, with more than 50-year career, "is constantly re-inventing itself and forming new identities".

Danius recommended to the detractors that in order to understand the Nobel for Bob Dylan should listen to it or read it, starting with the album "Blonde on Blonde", 1996, in which the artist reflects a "brilliant form of writing."

Danius has a recommendation for those who want to start to "listen or read" the work of Dylan. "I would start with the album Blonde on Blonde of 1966, since it has many classics and is an extraordinary exhibition, a brilliant way of writing," says the permanent secretary of the Nobel peace prize.

Reactions

The announcement of the Academy caused controversy due to a matter of preferences. The ferment that grew up in the social networks after discovering the name of Bob Dylan as the new winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature was by differences ontological. What I questioned those who said they were against the decision of the Swedish Academy was not to win someone who is not satisfied to the most, but the award recognizes the work of a singer-songwriter, who in the words of the jury was awarded for having created a new poetic expression in the great american tradition of the song". In short, what Zimmerman could be considered literature?

Held in his country by means of prestigious as the New Yorker magazine, the award outraged others who asked: what is (or is not) literature? And more questions: is it less poet Bob Dylan because his poems have the support of the music? What is more literature that is printed in books, that which is not? In what way material (the book) entitles the author?

they Also criticized the jury some professionals of the book industry, which saw the designation as a cross to the jaw of his market. However, the Spanish publishing house Malpaso is made of all rights of the work of the recent Nobel for Spain and Latin America. It is a sign of unclear borders in this edition of the biggest book fair in the world opened a new area called "The Arts", in which the literature is expressed in other branches of art and new technologies.

The peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa responded by saying that the Nobel prize for Literature is just for writers and not for singers. Emphasized that, although he likes the proposal of Dylan, the poetry of the sung should not be taken into account in these awards. Vargas Llosa considered the Nobel prize of Literature should be for a literary work of quality and that is not so well-known that the prize will help you get recognition. "You must be a prize for writers and not for singers," he said.

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Robert allen Zimmerman (75)

City: Duluth, Minnesota, united States

Profession: Singer, poet and composer of folk and rock

Bob Dylan is without doubt one of the greatest singer-songwriters of contemporary. His admiration for the poet Dylan Thomas did take the last name art, with which he became famous.

In 1959 he began his studies at the University of Minnesota, but spent more time singing in nightclubs and playing the guitar and the harmonica that studying. In the 60′s he created his own style of folk, which adopted letters with messages of protest and was a leader of the radical youth.