The Monk's Record Player
Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2018.
Format: Book
Description: xiv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"In 1965 Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year-old dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger of losing it all. Yet on the very day that his abbot uncovered the affair, Merton found solace in an unlikely place--the songs of Bob Dylan, who, as fate would have it, was experiencing his own personal and creative crises during the summer of 1966"--Amazon.com.
Contents:
Prologue: Sunday, March 6, 1966 -- Part one. Utopian hermit monk (April 1941 to August 1965) -- A new man -- Manuscript accepted -- The call to solitude -- This little house -- Dylan interlude no. 1: Bringing it all back home -- Part two. She speaks like silence (March to July 1966) -- The invented backbone -- Silver dagger -- The absurd man -- The soundtrack -- Dylan interlude no. 2: I do believe I've had enough -- Part three. The lonesome sparrow sings (July 1966 to October 1968) -- Sort of a Bob Dylan thing -- The American Villon -- A new consciousness -- Prophetic voices -- Dylan interlude no. 3: Join the monk -- Ascension -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
Dylan, Bob, 1941- -- Influence.
Baez, Joan.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
Dylan, Bob, 1941- -- Influence.
Baez, Joan.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780802875204
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
PERFORMING ARTS Music Hud | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-234) and index.