{"id":5893,"date":"2023-03-03T12:49:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2023-03-03T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:54:33","slug":"sunstein-on-bob-dylan-casssunstein-harvard_law-kennedy_school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/sunstein-on-bob-dylan-casssunstein-harvard_law-kennedy_school\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunstein on Bob Dylan @CassSunstein @Harvard_Law @Kennedy_School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School; Harvard Kennedy School, has published On Bob Dylan<\/a>. Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n

Bob Dylan celebrates \u201csongs about roses growing out of people’s brains and lovers who are really geese and swans that turn into angels.\u201d He thinks that \u201cmuseums are vulgar,\u201d because \u201cthey\u2019re all against sex.\u201d He proclaims,\u201cFolk music is a bunch of fat people.\u201d He notes, \u201cJust because someone mentions the word \u2018bomb,\u2019 I\u2019m not going to go \u2018Aalee!\u2019 and start clapping.\u201d These remarks about lovers who are really geese, museums, folk music, and protest songs capture Dylan\u2019s distaste for whatever is rote or routine, and help explain his refusal to identify with the social movements of the 1960s. The remarks also tell us something about the central themes of \u201cDesolation Row\u201d and \u201cThe Philosophy of Modern Song,\u201d and also about why \u201cLike A Rolling Stone\u201d is not a finger-pointing song but a celebration of movement and rootlessness. Dylan\u2019s work is dishabituating, and he cherishes the dishabituating power of music and art in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n

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For more about Bob Dylan and the law, see this short bibliography:<\/p>\n

Brown, Richard,\u00a0Bob Dylan’s Critique of Judgement: “Thinkin’ About the Law,<\/em> in The Political Art of Bob Dylan 35-54 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).<\/p>\n

Gearey, Adam,\u00a0Outlaw Blues: Law in the Songs of Bob Dylan,<\/em> 20 Cardozo Law Review 1401 (1998\/1999).<\/p>\n

Levine, Samuel J., Symposium: Bob Dylan and the Law, Foreword, 38 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1267 (2010\/2011)..<\/a><\/p>\n

See the rest of the issue for more articles about Dylan and the law.<\/p>\n

Perlin, MIchael J.,\u00a0“You That Build the Death Planes”: Bob Dylan, War, and International Affairs,<\/em> 37 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 305 (2020).<\/p>\n

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