Nobel prize to Bob Dylan is a great precedent, experts say – EBC

The choice of Bob Dylan as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 by the Swedish Academy surprised the world on Thursday (13). The singer was awarded for "having created new forms of expression poetic in the framework of the great tradition of american music". Known for being an artist is booked, the north american has not yet manifested itself on the conquest of the award.

"of Course that was not poetry, nor even sung poetry. Is for composing music, is to tell stories, is the electrical noise, is a bard by exploring the invention of the new media of his time [amplifiers, microphones, recording studios, radio] to the performance of literary form as playwrights or screenwriters they once made. It is love, it is theft, it is the fire that he built on Main Street [main street] and shot full of holes. He has not won for the Chronic [autobiography written by Dylan], the best memory of the rock & roll of all time. He has not won for Tarantula, to his famous and indecipherable novel. He has not won by his lyrics, which remain filled with errors that he never bothered to fix it," said the writer of the american magazine specialized in music Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield. "He won for inventing ways of making songs that did not exist before."

For the music critic and presenter of the Radio National Tárik de Souza, the Nobel prize for Literature awarded to Dylan is "a precedent" incredible. "He actually gave a consistency to the rock, which he had not before. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were inspired by it because it really was from him that the rock won a weight art, of culture really. This award has really rewarded this, goes to show that Bob Dylan has made a difference brutal when he began to print his own style. Their letters questioning, deep enough, an x-ray of american society," he said to the Agency Brazil.

music Critic and presenter of Radio National, Tárik de Souza considers that the award of Bob Dylan should not be followed by other singers of todayFile Keyston/Agência Lusa/direitos reservados

Tárik evaluates that the award of Bob Dylan should not be followed by other singers of today. "Bob Dylan is a special case, was not only an intellectual aspect. He is a guy that comes from the confluence of the Beat generation, american generation of poets, and he turned it into a thing popular, high consumption, one thing mass really. His success was astounding, it really translated to the public at large the deepest questions through his poetics. He is an artist very unique, hard to give another prize to another person in Pop Art such as Bob Dylan’s"

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Several celebrities commented on the newest Nobel prize in Literature on social networks. The american president Barack Obama congratulated Bob Dylan on his Twitter account. “Congratulations to one of my favorite poets,” he said. The british writer Salman Rushdie also used the internet to celebrate the news, “Dylan is the brilliant heir of the tradition of the bards. Great choice”. The brazilian singer Gilberto Gil also expressed: “I Love his songs. Well deserved this award.”

Bob Dylan is the stage name of Robert Allen Zimmerman, born in the state of Minnesota, on may 24, 1941 – composer, singer, painter, actor and american writer. The age of 10, Dylan wrote his first poems and, still a teenager, he learned piano and guitar alone. He began singing in groups of rock, imitating Little Richard and Buddy Holly.

In 1959, to go to the University of Minnesota turned to the folk music. In 2004, he was elected by the magazine Rolling Stone the seventh greatest singer of all time and, by the same magazine, the second best song artist of all time, behind only the Beatles. One of their main songs, Like a Rolling Stone, was chosen as one of the best of all time.

In Brazil, Dylan has published the books the Chronicles – Volume 1 (Planet), released in 2005, and Tarantula (1971), 1986. In 2012, Dylan was awarded the Medal of Freedom by president of United States Barack Obama. With the Nobel prize for Literature, became the first and only artist in history to also win the Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe awards.

Edition: Fábio Massalli