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BOB DYLAN’S DEFIANT VOICE IN HEARTBROKEN AMERICA: A new review of The Times They Are A-Changin'

SOURCES

—’According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon, Dylan…after JFK's assassination’: page 87, Guesdon, Jean-Michel; Margotin, Philippe, Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2015

—’Biographer Clinton Heylin has pointed out that…beginning a sustained period of topical songwriting’: page 89, Heylin, Clinton, Behind the Shades: The 20th Anniversary Edition. Faber & Faber, 2011.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Guesdon, Jean-Michel; Margotin, Philippe, Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2015.

Heylin, Clinton, Behind the Shades: The 20th Anniversary Edition. Faber & Faber, 2011

Shelton, Robert, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan. Da Capo Press, 1997

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