The Dylantantes Podcast

In this latest episode of the Million Dollar Bash Roundtable, the gang takes on the Dylan songs they think deserve greater attention and recognition. Will sparks fly? Will inspiration flare? Well, there is only one way to find out! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thedylantantes.substack.com

Laura Tenschert is a writer, podcaster, and musician living in London, UK. She is the creator of Definitely Dylan, a podcast about Bob Dylan’s work and creative process. The episodes on Rough and Rowdy Ways, Shadow Kingdom, and Dylan’s visual art have established her as a crucial voice on the artist’s recent work. Laura has presented and organised panels at the World of Bob Dylan conferences in Tu...

Harold Lepidus  is the author of  Friends and Other Strangers - Bob Dylan Examined   He also hosts the Boston Harold Podcast. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thedylantantes.substack.com

The Stoics taught us that the contemplation of the fleeting nature of life helps prepare us for the end, encourages us to appreciate and make the best of the present, and softens the blow when we lose those we care about. In that spirit, The Dylantantes presents a Million Dollar Bash Roundtable focused on Bob Dylan’s legacy now and forevermore even as he embarks on a new leg of his latest tour. Th...

Rebecca Slaman is a freelance writer and editor. She has a BA from Fordham University in English and Classics. Her writing specializes in fan communities on social media. She has been cited as a Bob Dylan expert in speaking engagements at University of Tulsa and Florida International University. You can find her on Twitter @ithrewtheglass, on the web at http://rslaman.wixsite.com/website , and on...

Dr. Keith Nainby is Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. There, his primary academic interests include pedagogy, philosophy, and performance. Keith currently focuses on the cultural contexts of musical performances, such as listener engagements and fan communities. He has published a book and four essays, with a fifth forthcoming, on Bob Dylan (most with c...

Dr. Anne Marie Mai is our guest on The Dylantantes podcast (interview by Erin Callahan). The discussion ranges widely before zeroing in on Dylan and masculinity. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thedylantantes.substack.com

In June of 2023, the University of Tulsa Institute for Bob Dylan Studies held The World of Bob Dylan conference in Tulsa in conjunction with a new cultural event called Switchyard. The panelists start their postmortem of the World of Bob Dylan 2023 with a critique of this “mash-up.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,...

The Philosophy of Modern Song and the Ambi-Modernist Impulse A panel from the World of Bob Dylan, June 2, 2023, Tulsa, OK The publication of Bob Dylan's  The Philosophy of Modern Song  in 2022 has elicited much commentary related to song selection, the question of breadth, and the notion of a central philosophy tying it all together. What this panel suggests is that this book contains thematic thr...

Roundtable Panelists: * Rob Reginio teaches modern literature at Alfred University.  He's currently at work on a book about Dylan's album John Wesley Harding . * Nina Goss is Editor of or contributor to the volumes Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the 21st Century and Dylan at Play . She is a contributor to various anthologies and presented at the first World of Bob Dylan conference (2019),...

What Is It about Bob Dylan? Culture critic, artist, prolific podcaster, and host of Pod Dylan , Rob Kelly, is our guest on The Dylantantes podcast. Rob Kelly is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and pop culture historian. He was the creator/editor of the book HEY KIDS, COMICS!: TRUE-LIFE TALES FROM THE SPINNER RACK, and writes the Reel Retro Cinema column for 13ThDimension.com . He is the host...

What Is It about Bob Dylan? Music and cultural journalist Allison Rapp is our guest on The Dylantantes podcast. Allison Rapp is a music and culture journalist based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Brooklyn Magazine, Rock Cellar, City Limits, and more. She currently works as an assistant editor at Ultimate Classic Rock where she's interviewed the likes of Peter Frampton, Roger McGuinn, J...

What Is It about Bob Dylan? Dylanpreneur Craig Danuloff is our guest on The Dylantantes podcast. Craig Danuloff is host of the Dylan. FM, which is a podcast and website he’s running as part of the Freak Music Club. When not being an obsessive Dylan fan, he’s a technology entrepreneur who has founded a series of companies, most recently relating to consumer privacy and identity verification. 20+ ye...

Just a few months ago, Bob Dylan released his second book of prose (third book ever), and loftily entitled it The Philosophy of Modern Song. The reviews have been mixed, but the book has already become the latest folder for the academic industrial complex. Here at The Dylantantes, we have decided that enough is enough and that it is time to put an end to all the speculation and debate. We present...

What Is It about Bob Dylan? Dr Nina Goss is our guest on The Dylantantes podcast (interview by Erin Callahan) Nina Goss was born and raised in New York.  She earned her BA from University of Rochester and her MFA and PhD from the University of Washington and currently teaches at Fordham University.  She is quite prolific in her work on Dylan. Since she started researching and writing about Dylan,...

What Is It about Bob Dylan? Dr. Robert Reginio is our guest on The Dylantantes podcast. Rob Reginio is a professor English at Alfred University in Western New York. He is the editor of and contributor to the collection Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art . He has published and presented widely on modernism and memory and has published pieces on Dylan and race and Dylan and Emmanuel Levinas. He is...

What Is It about Bob Dylan? Dr. Graley Herren is our guest on The Dylantantes podcast. Graley is Professor and Chair of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He is the author of Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s Time Out of Mind , published by Anthem Press in 2021 and now available in paperback. He is also the author of books on Samuel Beckett and Don DeLillo, and many articles and book chapte...

An evening with Emma Swift and Robyn Hitchcock performing in an apartment in Chelsea This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thedylantantes.substack.com

For all of my life, I have not met Bob Dylan. In fact, not meeting Bob Dylan is a big part of my day-to-day. I can honestly say that my close, personal relationship with Bob Dylan, established when I was a teen and more deeply developed over subsequent decades, only exists to the extent that it has not happened yet. Sure, there was that time recently when my car almost collided with Dylan’s tour b...

What Is It about Bob Dylan? Dr. Court Carney is our second guest on The Dylantantes podcast. Court is a history professor at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He is  the author of Cutting Up: How Early Jazz Got America’s Ear and is currently finishing a manuscript on the public memory and image of the infamous rat-b*****d Nathan Bedford Forrest . For fun, he is a member of...

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