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Bob Dylan receives honorary Pulitzer Prize

Judges note his ‘profound impact on popular music and American culture’

NEW YORK – Thanks to Bob Dylan, rock ‘n roll has finally broken through the Pulitzer wall.

Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwriter of the past half century, who more than anyone brought rock from the streets to the lecture hall, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, cited for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”

It was the first time Pulitzer judges, who have long favored classical music, and, more recently, jazz, awarded an art form once dismissed as barbaric, even subversive.

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    • Edger on April 9, 2008 at 03:48
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    cause the vandals took the handles

    © 1965 Bob Dylan

  1. heh.

    • nocatz on April 9, 2008 at 04:10

    Edger, and pfiore8

    Photobucket

  2. …was the choice to give no one the award for excellence in editorial writing.

    Damn right.

  3. Great for him, and thanks for bringing it up.

    I didn’t know there was good news and good deeds anymore.

    • kj on April 9, 2008 at 04:48

    • kj on April 9, 2008 at 05:03

    • Edger on April 9, 2008 at 05:05
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    you reappear

    You suddenly find you got nothing to fear

    Alone you stand with nobody near

    When a trembling distant voice, unclear

    Startles your sleeping ears to hear

    That somebody thinks

    They really found you.

    A question in your nerves is lit

    Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy

    Insure you not to quit

    To keep it in your mind and not fergit

    That it is not he or she or them or it

    That you belong to.

    Although the masters make the rules

    For the wise men and the fools

    I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

    • nocatz on April 9, 2008 at 05:42

    (for Charlie Patton)

    • Edger on April 9, 2008 at 16:36
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    Desolation Row

    1st half………………………………2nd half

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