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> Heck, Bob Dylan made an entire career as a musician off of the AP English curriculum. I have no idea what you mean by that, can you explain?
by apetresc 5y ago
> Heck, Bob Dylan made an entire career as a musician off of the AP English curriculum.
I have no idea what you mean by that, can you explain?
- meristohm 5y agoI’ll take a stab at an answer: my understanding is that Dylan borrowed heavily from folktales, folklore, and the work of other balladiers. Checking myself, I see on his Wikipedia entry[0]: “ The thing about rock'n'roll is that for me anyway it wasn't enough ... There were great catch-phrases and driving pulse rhythms ... but the songs weren't serious or didn't reflect life in a realistic way. I knew that when I got into folk music, it was more of a serious type of thing. The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings.” -Bob Dylan, 1985 Exposure to stories with a range of emotions is part of the point of English class. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
- hdctambien 5y agoI read an article (or maybe a biography author interview on NPR) about how pretty much all of his double-meanings/literary references came from the honors English curriculum from his time in school (probably pre-80's Dylan). However, now when I try to google for it I just find pages and pages of results about whether he deserved the Nobel prize or not.
- handrous 5y agoI took it as a reference to his lyrics, for which "AP English" would make a pretty good tongue-in-cheek categorization of the style & content. Same with the text he writes for the back of his album covers. It's not the kind of thing I'd expect someone without exposure to and some affinity for that kind of thing (literature and poetry, that is) to invent spontaneously.