four years Ago, when it paid tribute to Bob Dylan, president Barack Obama reminded the singer, songwriter and poet who came out of the small city of Duluth, in Minnesota, where he was born, in 1941, because there it was too cold to be rebellious. At 19 years old, was then to begin in the rebellion to New York, where in the 60s and 70s, the climate was favourable to the nonconformist talents as his. The story tells the rest, but the Obama summarized as follows: Dylan is “the giant largest in the history of american music”, someone who “continues in search of a piece of the truth.” That day of May 2012, Bob Dylan received the Medal of Freedom from the hands of Obama without ever taking off the dark glasses and returned to his place at the back of the room.
Rebellious, indomitable, an icon of the counterculture, a storyteller able to thrill the crowds, the symbol of protest against abuses of basic rights, with many of his songs being sung as the anthem of human rights activists, Dylan is also an icon of an America that seems threatened, America where it seemed possible to be everything from that had a talent for it, the America of equality of opportunities which allowed Dylan to be Dylan. For now, little or nothing is known of the political thought recent of the man who, in 1964, stated that the policy was not of interest to you. But everything about him, from how he ascended to the musical universe of lyrics that he wrote and how they defined artistically, conotava-politically with a proposal, nothing conservative. In an article published in May of this year in the Huffington Post, the politólogo Peter Dreier wrote: “their letters reflect a concern with the various directions taken by the country, including the beatings of civil rights and the escalation of the race to nuclear weapons.” It was the time of the protests against the Vietnam War, the defence of the rights of the blacks with names like Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcolm X, the liberalisation of customs of New York city — and, in particular, Greenwich Village — became the epicenter. It was there that Bob Dylan lived and created after his decision not to kill the rebellion staff.
And although politically absent, continued to participate in causes. Dreier remembers some, such as performances in concerts to raise funds for the famine in Bangladesh or in Ethiopia and to farmers in difficulties. When he received a career prize in 1991, was the first Gulf war, played the Master of war in tribute to american troops in Iraq. In 2008, when Obama won his first election to the White House, Bob Dylan was performing at the University of Minnesota. To know, at this time, the victory of Obama, said: "I was Born in 1941. That was the year they bombed Pearl Harbor. I have lived in darkness since then. It seems that things are changing now”, and sang Blowin' in the wind.
it Was to this man that the Swedish Academy has awarded the second Nobel prize to an american writer, 23 years after you have given the Tony Morrison, an activist for the rights of blacks and women, and when missing three weeks to the elections that will also help define the U.S. role in the world and the collective destiny of the West.
There is politics in the decision of the Swedish Academy? The official discourse was any mention. The distinction of Bob Dylan is literary, argued. Joyce Carol Oates, also american and is one of the names singled out as nobilizáveis, alongside Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy or Don DeLillo, does not deny the literary quality of Dylan. It is "an inspired choice, and original," wrote Oates on Twitter, adding: "In their obsession, their music and their letters were always 'literary' in its meaning more deeply." There is another point that Oates has not ceased to remember: Dylan, said, reaches many more millions than she is.
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