bobdylan

=Bob Dylan=


 * Directions**: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual //and// provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?


 * Guiding Questions**
 * What was happening with music in the 1960s? Who was the primary audience for this music? (consider a brief overview of both rock and folk music--Dylan spans both).
 * What role did music play in the protest movements of the time? the Civil Rights Movement? the counter culture movement? the anti-war movement?
 * How did Dylan's music reflect events at the time?
 * Cuban Missile Crisis: "A Hard Rain is A-Gonna Fall"
 * James Meredith: "Oxford Town'
 * "How many roads must a man go down"
 * John Kennedy's assassination: "'The Times They are A-Changin"
 * "Like a Rolling Stone"
 * "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know which way the wind blows"
 * Resources**
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=T8cp7NvcGxoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=related:ISBN0802138918#v=onepage&q=&f=false
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=xs7DmBy87UwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=related:ISBN0802138918#v=onepage&q=&f=false
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=uNOf_w5vWakC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Bob+Dylan&source=bll&ots=P1x5mz8QPB&sig=FaIvnR9rl78tbG_enkKNeoD-Ttc&hl=en&ei=QTWYS8v5M8iUtgez0u3kAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=15&ved=0CFYQ6AEwDg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=Ps-S97fhjHEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false