Author name: Amal H.

How did Bob Dylan Change folk?

When Dylan began to write his own compositions, he shamelessly borrowed from folk forms, taking Eliot’s idea of ‘tradition’ as ‘fusion’ and reshaping it. His earliest compositions are imitations, reworkings of older songs. Some are anonymous, ‘traditional’ songs, but others have recognisable models, including Guthrie. Also Did the Beatles influence Bob Dylan? The Beatles and

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