{"id":12443,"date":"2009-08-27T20:04:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T20:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/27\/does-the-left-own-dylan\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T20:04:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T20:04:43","slug":"does-the-left-own-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/27\/does-the-left-own-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Left Own Dylan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Not according to Sean Curnyn of <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/rightwingbob.com\/whoami.htm\"><font face=\"Georgia\">RightWingBob.com.<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">&#0160; (Via <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatswrongwiththeworld.net\/2009\/08\/bob_dylan_christmas_album.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Paul J. Cella<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">)&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Dylan is an artist not an ideologue, arguably America&#39;s greatest troubadour.&#0160; For a taste of Left-Right polarity in Dylan&#39;s work already in the 1960s compare <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ixuq-AA8z4Y\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Subterranean Homesick Blues<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> with <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pt4wafHhTVo&amp;feature=PlayList&amp;p=0DF2CFAC8F7B335E&amp;playnext=1&amp;playnext_from=PL&amp;index=11\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Father of Night.<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">&#0160; The Weatherman faction of the SDS got its name from the line, &quot;It don&#39;t take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows&quot; from the former.&#0160; It is worth noting that Dylan&#39;s farewell to&#0160;ideology came early, in 1964, in <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TZ4SbYot90M\"><font face=\"Georgia\">My Back Pages<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, thus a year before&#0160;&quot;Subterranean Homesick Blues.&quot;&#0160; If you can&#39;t stand Dylan&#39;s voice, give a listen to <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IsVujyu_1wQ&amp;feature=PlayList&amp;p=DA490C5A4DF6B86A&amp;playnext=1&amp;playnext_from=PL&amp;index=13\"><font face=\"Georgia\">this high-powered version<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> of &quot;My Back Pages&quot; featuring Roger McGuinn, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Neil Young, et al.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">&quot;Ah, but I was so much older then, I&#39;m younger than that now.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not according to Sean Curnyn of RightWingBob.com.&#0160; (Via Paul J. Cella)&#0160; Dylan is an artist not an ideologue, arguably America&#39;s greatest troubadour.&#0160; For a taste of Left-Right polarity in Dylan&#39;s work already in the 1960s compare Subterranean Homesick Blues with Father of Night.&#0160; The Weatherman faction of the SDS got its name from the line, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/27\/does-the-left-own-dylan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does the Left Own Dylan?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,163,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}