Persona: from Charlie Chaplin to Woody Guthrie. The political environment: civil rights, nuclear threat, the right wing, assassinations. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and The Times They Are A-Changin'. The March on Washington, summer 1963. Turning his back on politics after JFK's death, fall 1963. "The curse it is cast": playing the same songs for 50 years. Two performances of "The Times They Are A-Changin'."

1. VOICE OF A
GENERATION
THE EARLY 1960S

2. WHERE WE LEFT OFF
It’s 1962. Bob Dylan just came out.
Woody Guthrie’s apostle
is dominating the New York
folk scene.

3. THE “LITTLE TRAMP”

4. THE TRIBUNE

5. TALKIN’ 1963
PARANOID BLUES
★ Civil Rights
★ The Cold War
★ John Birch
Society
★ JFK

6. THE FREEWHEELIN’
BOB DYLAN
★ Mostly original
compositions,
mostly great
★ Suze Rotolo
★ Ed Sullivan Show
★ Bigger crowds

7. SONGS: ★ “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All
Right”
★ “Blowin’ in the Wind” ★ “Bob Dylan’s Dream”
★ “Girl from the North ★ “Oxford Town”
Country”
★ “Talkin’ World War III
★ “Masters of War” Blues”
★ “Down the Highway” ★ “Corrina, Corrina”
★ “Bob Dylan’s Blues” ★ “Honey, Just Allow Me One
More Chance”
★ “A Hard Rain’s A-
Gonna Fall” ★ “I Shall Be Free”

8. THE TIMES THEY ARE
A-CHANGIN’
★ More Civil Rights
★ Joan Baez
★ Anthem of “the
Times”

9. ★ “Only a Pawn in
SONGS: Their Game”
★ “The Times They ★ “Boots of Spanish
Are A-Changin’” Leather”
★ “Ballad of Hollis ★ “When the Ship
Brown” Comes In”
★ “With God on Our ★ “The Lonesome
Side” Death of Hattie
Carroll”
★ “One Too Many
Mornings” ★ “Restless Farewell”

10. [VIDEO: “ONLY A PAWN”
AND “WHEN THE SHIP
COMES IN” @
THE MARCH ON
WASHINGTON]

11. TOM PAINE HIMSELF
★ “Finger-pointin’
songs”
★ Emergency Civil
Liberties
Committee, Tom
Paine Award,
1963

12. AND YET:
★ “Blowin’ In The Wind”: 1027
performances
★ “Masters of War”: 875 performances
★ “The Times They Are A-Changin’”: 637
performances

13. [VIDEO: “THE TIMES THEY
ARE A-CHANGIN’”ON
“QUEST”, 1964]

14. [VIDEO: “THE TIMES
THEY ARE A-
CHANGIN’” AT THE
WHITE HOUSE, 2010]

15. NEXT WEEK
★ Bob Dylan as
American
historian &
myth-maker
★ Homework