{"id":1588,"date":"2021-05-24T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T08:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2021-05-17T15:07:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:07:13","slug":"bob-dylan-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/05\/24\/bob-dylan-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan @ 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1591 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/highway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/highway.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/highway-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/>Radio 4 marks the 80th birthday of Bob Dylan with a series of essays, an original audio drama and a documentary, each celebrating the musician widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/2021\/radio4-celebrates-bob-dylan\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/2021\/radio4-celebrates-bob-dylan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born Robert Allen Zimmerman on 24 May 1941, Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time in a career spanning over 60 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1589 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/bw-dylan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/bw-dylan.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/bw-dylan-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/>Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as &#8220;Blowing\u2019 in the Wind\u201d (1963) and &#8220;The Times They Are a-Changin\u2019\u201d (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and anti-war\u00a0movements.<\/p>\n<p>His treasure trove of songs have re-shaped folk, rock and pop, and he maintains an almost mythic status as the bard of the current age.<\/p>\n<p>(I was fortunate to see him at Earls Court in the late 70s \u2013 a mesmeric performance, Ed).<\/p>\n<p>He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 \u201cfor having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio 4 marks the 80th birthday of Bob Dylan with a series of essays, an original audio drama and a documentary, each celebrating the musician widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/2021\/radio4-celebrates-bob-dylan Born Robert Allen Zimmerman on 24 May 1941, Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/05\/24\/bob-dylan-80\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bob Dylan @ 80&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}