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I thought that's how they initially got the $1m prize money......they sold (at least) 40 harmonicas?

Might be how he got to the academy...

emeraldsoul
The Nobel committee should have thought twice, 'cause this is not all right.
 
A prize given in 2016 could better represent work done in or around the year 2016.    ?
 
Otherwise, wait until next year, when the 2017 Nobel for Literature goes to the guy who painted on the caves at Lascaux.
 

That would be incorrect. The prize is usually given to a person with a strong record for their work. Bob, would certainly fit the bill, and 100 years from now, folks will probably list him with Robert Frost, EE Cummings, Waldo Emerson, and the like ... and not even realize, or recognize he also used these words with music.
 
It would also be a major finger and the like to a lot of the music business and the fame business. And how incorrect and inappropriate the media was when they panned him for walking on stage with an electric guitar some 50 years ago, was it?

emeraldsoul
The Nobel committee should have thought twice, 'cause this is not all right.
 
A prize given in 2016 could better represent work done in or around the year 2016.    ?
 
Otherwise, wait until next year, when the 2017 Nobel for Literature goes to the guy who painted on the caves at Lascaux.
 
 
 

The policy of the Nobel committee is to forget about today until tomorrow.

Moshkito
 
 
It would also be a major finger and the like to a lot of the music business and the fame business. And how incorrect and inappropriate the media was when they panned him for walking on stage with an electric guitar some 50 years ago, was it?

 
Not really anything to do with 'the media'...a section of the audience at the Newport Festival 'booed' Dylan when he played with an electric band for the first time. There is a suggestion that they were upset at the poor sound quality and the brevity of his set, not by his electric guitar. Ewan McColl and a couple of other purist 'folkies' criticised Dylan for going electric though.

jamesg1213 
Not really anything to do with 'the media'...a section of the audience at the Newport Festival 'booed' Dylan when he played with an electric band for the first time. There is a suggestion that they were upset at the poor sound quality and the brevity of his set, not by his electric guitar. Ewan McColl and a couple of other purist 'folkies' criticised Dylan for going electric though.

 
I'm one to believe that those now blaming the sound are revisionists who altered their story after Dylan's trajectory changed rather decidedly in a positive way.


And a few days after Newport Bob recorded the caustic Positively 4th Street leading to speculation that it was at least in part a reaction to the Village crowd that had turned on him. Bob being Bob will of course never tell though.

Well, his work certainly impressed a lot of people in my generation. But I disagree about how long his work will last. Most likely he will be forgotten like ee cumings as a minor poet who hit it big with something quirky. Of course as far as influence on the general public and income from his poetry, he will dwarf amateurs like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and George Gordon Byron. I think most of us could name several songwriters who have written better poetry. This may be the literature equivalent of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, in recognizing a popular figure of limited accomplishment in the field in hopes that it may make the field, if not the prize, somehow relevant. Still Mr. Zimmerman may have a legacy as the inventor of the folk-rap genre. 
 
 
 

While I do appreciate Dylan and his contribution and love many of his songs and texts, I think this is b.s. You have to put things into perspective. But in a day and age where pop culture is the only culture, perspective is lacking, so it does make sense I suppose.
 
Up next: Burger King gets the Global Gastronomy award.

Anyone who compares Dylan to Burger King ain't gonna win any prizes for their literacy. Just sayin'...

drewfx1
Anyone who compares Dylan to Burger King ain't gonna win any prizes for their literacy. Just sayin'...

Anyone who fails to grasp the jest either. Also just saying...

slartabartfast
Well, his work certainly impressed a lot of people in my generation. But I disagree about how long his work will last. Most likely he will be forgotten like ee cumings as a minor poet who hit it big with something quirky. Of course as far as influence on the general public and income from his poetry, he will dwarf amateurs like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and George Gordon Byron. I think most of us could name several songwriters who have written better poetry. This may be the literature equivalent of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, in recognizing a popular figure of limited accomplishment in the field in hopes that it may make the field, if not the prize, somehow relevant. Still Mr. Zimmerman may have a legacy as the inventor of the folk-rap genre. 
 
 
 

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