No titanic influence on the culture of THIS American. I found his "music" abrasive at best and not really reflective of what most Americans believe.
Darling of the American Left ala Woody Guthrie. He promoted class warfare.
The only song he wrote that I liked was "Like a Rolling Stone", which was done much better by the Young Rascals.
“Darling of the American Left ala Woody Guthrie. He promoted class warfare.”
Dylan was asked about the absence of any song about the current war on his own latest album, Modern Times.
“Didn’t Neil Young do that?” he jokes . . . “What’s funny about the Neil record, when I heard ‘Let’s Impeach the President,’ I thought it was something old that had been lying around. I said, ‘That’s crazy, he’s doing a song about Clinton?’”
Weekly Standard, Sean Curnyn:
“Somehow, after over 40 years of evidence to the contrary, much of the world seems to continue to expect the man who is arguably America’s greatest songwriter to sign on to left/liberal causes at the first opportunity. If nothing else, it is proof that in attempting to kidnap Dylan’s songs (in Dylan’s own words, his songs were “subverted into polemics” in the 1960s), the left succeeded in convincing the average person that both the work and the man did, indeed, belong to them.”
Read the rest of the Weekly Standard article “ What Dylan is Not” at;
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/012/727xwxao.asp
The percentage of his songs that are overtly political is tiny.