{"id":180,"date":"2019-10-10T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:41:59","slug":"gnaoua-and-bob-dylan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/gnaoua-and-bob-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnaoua and Bob Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bob Dylan<br><strong>Bringing It All Back Home<\/strong>, 1966<br>Private collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s album <em>Bringing It All Back Home<\/em> (1965), where he departed from folk music and entered into new musical and lyrical territory, features a copy of <em>Gnaoua<\/em> propped on the mantelpiece. Its presence may be a public acknowledgement of Dylan\u2019s enthusiastic recent exposure to the work of William S. Burroughs, which he had encountered in \u201clittle magazines, foreign magazines,\u201d as he stated in an interview that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ira Cohen<br><strong>Gnaoua, no. 1<\/strong>, 1964<br>Tangier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Produced by poet and artist Ira Cohen in Tangier, <em>Gnaoua<\/em> was a one-shot literary magazine featuring work by many of the Beats. The magazine\u2019s name was derived from a traditional Moroccan culture known for ecstatic dance and hypnotic trance music, practices reputed to cure psychological ills and remedy scorpion stings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Regan (American, c. 1940 \u2013 2012)<br><strong>At Kerouac\u2019s Grave, Lowell, Mass.<\/strong>, 1976<br>gelatin silver print<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bob Dylan had a multi-faceted relationship with the Beats. He credits early exposure to Jack Kerouac\u2019s <em>Mexico City Blues<\/em>, Allen Ginsberg\u2019s <em>Howl<\/em>, Gregory Corso\u2019s <em>Gasoline<\/em>, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti\u2019s <em>Coney Island of the Mind<\/em> with liberating his sense of language and poetry as he embarked on his career as a songwriter. He later became a close friend of Ginsberg, whose photograph appears on the back cover of Dylan\u2019s breakthrough album, <em>Bringing It All Back Home<\/em> (1965). In 1975-76, Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Anne Waldman, toured with Dylan\u2019s Rolling Thunder Revue. It was during this tour that Dylan, Ginsberg, and Orlovsky paid a visit to Kerouac\u2019s grave in Lowell, Massachusetts, an event commemorated in this photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Bob DylanBringing It All Back Home, 1966Private collection The cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s album Bringing It All Back Home (1965), where he departed from folk music and entered into new musical and lyrical territory, features a copy of Gnaoua propped on the mantelpiece. Its presence may be a public acknowledgement of Dylan\u2019s enthusiastic recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}