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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize mention deleted from his website
Arutz Sheva ^ | 23/10/16

Posted on 10/23/2016 3:56:42 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

JTA - The fallout from Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature has taken a strange turn: The Jewish folk singer’s website has taken down its only brief mention of the award.

Dylan has not acknowledged the award at any of his performances in the week since the Nobel committee’s Oct. 13 announcement, but his website made one allusion to it this week on a page promoting a new collection of his lyrics, “The Lyrics: 1961: 2012.” The page on bobdylan.com simply called him the “winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.”

As of Friday morning, the reference has been erased without explanation.

The Swedish Academy has tried and failed multiple times to contact Dylan through close associates of his since the award announcement. Sara Danius, the Nobel academy’s secretary, told Swedish radio on Monday that the academy has given up attempting to contact him and could not confirm whether he would attend the award ceremony in Stockholm on Nov. 10.

Numerous publications have noted that celebrities often do not control the content of their public websites, so it is conceivable that Dylan had no input about the award’s mention on his site.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bobdylan; literature; nevermind; nobelprize; qt
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To: Eleutheria5

He’s the Shakespeare of our time


21 posted on 10/23/2016 5:03:45 AM PDT by nikos1121 (I am way more deplorable than you.)
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To: Nothingburger

Tupac was just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All these awards are jokes.


22 posted on 10/23/2016 5:13:05 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: billorites

He is also a full fledged Republican.


23 posted on 10/23/2016 5:21:10 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Eleutheria5

Maybe he agrees with me that he doesn’t deserve it. LOL!


24 posted on 10/23/2016 5:42:45 AM PDT by luvie (I love the troops. That is all...)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

If you listen to Day of the Locusts from New Morning you realize Dylan is just not into awards. This song is about the ceremony where he picked up his honorary degree from Harvard.

I’ve always been a huge Dylan fan. His attitude about Harvard and the Nobel Prize is just another reason I will always continue to be a big fan.


25 posted on 10/23/2016 5:57:22 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: Eleutheria5

Good for him. The thing is worthless. They gave a Noble to Yassar Arafat for crying out loud.


26 posted on 10/23/2016 6:14:49 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Sadly, Nobel Peace prizes are not awarded posthumously.


27 posted on 10/23/2016 6:15:41 AM PDT by Clutch Martin
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To: Eleutheria5

You mean, of course ‘Peace’ award...


28 posted on 10/23/2016 6:19:58 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Eleutheria5

It’s a Literature prize.

Dave Brubeck, whom I admire and have multiple albums of, does not write any words.

As such, his music can never be considered literature.


29 posted on 10/23/2016 6:21:54 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: newfreep
My 60's legacy is a Dylan song too.

I remember laughing the first time that I heard Positively 4th Street, and I still laugh when I hear it today.

30 posted on 10/23/2016 6:26:04 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Dixie Yooper

That’s what I think. He’s just not “into” the Nobel prize. Good for him for not acknowledging it.


31 posted on 10/23/2016 6:28:24 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: skimbell

Dylan wrote many, many great songs and I was initially drawn to them thru the lyrics. Later, when he went electric, the music became even more enjoyable.

Ironically, some of his best songs were covers by other groups or solo artists.

I absolutely loved “Positively 4th St” - and thanks to a girlfriend, the lyrics resonated 100% true to me.

But Al Kooper’s organ in “Like A Rolling Stone” is classic and the story behind the recording is equally fascinating.


32 posted on 10/23/2016 6:38:26 AM PDT by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: skimbell

Al Kooper interview on how he went from Guitarist to Control Booth to Organ during recording of “Like A Rolling Stone”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOAowiF3y_8


33 posted on 10/23/2016 6:44:54 AM PDT by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: Eleutheria5
It's certainly within his right to decline the award, but not having the courtesy to acknowledge it or respond to the Swedish Academy is simply inexcusably rude and boorish.

In response the 2016 award should be pulled and re-awarded to someone else. Dylan can then be relegated to the "errata" section of the Nobel's history.

34 posted on 10/23/2016 6:45:04 AM PDT by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

“He is also a full fledged Republican.”

That I did not know. Are you sure? That would make sense.


35 posted on 10/23/2016 6:46:26 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory.)
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To: billorites
What do you base that on (Dylan being crazy).

Have you ever read anything about him?

Bob Dylan is one of the most grounded big-name performing artists out there. He keeps his private life separate from his public life and focused most of his adult years raising his family. He shuns being labeled and refuses to be made a tool of by the political left.

He does exactly what we tell other performing artists to do (like Springsteen and Bono): Shut up and sing. He also writes most of his own songs, many of which will be enduring classics that our great-great-grandchildren will be listening to someday.

My respect for Bob Dylan went up even more with his very public snubbing of the silly, pointless and devalued Nobel prize. When they handed their Peace prize to Obama before he even had a year in office for doing absolutely nothing to make the world more peaceful, the value of a Nobel is approx. the same as a soggy roll of toilet paper on the floor of a porta-potty at a Pearl Jam concert.

I hear the Nobel committee is trying to get Obama to "politely" return the stupid thing. Good luck with that.

Thank you Bob Dylan for according the Nobel committee with the respect that they deserve.

36 posted on 10/23/2016 6:46:30 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Eleutheria5
Alternate headline:

Nobel Prize Committee's trolling attempt fails for a change.

37 posted on 10/23/2016 6:53:02 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Eleutheria5

Never was a Dylan fan, I came from the DooWop era. However I really liked the ‘Blood On The Tracks’ LP.


38 posted on 10/23/2016 7:03:10 AM PDT by duckman
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To: SamAdams76

Dittos to Dylan being grounded.

I lived near his mother in St. Paul for a number of years. He and his children and grandchildren were close to her.

Dylan consulted with and visited a couple of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis who were my neighbors, and I got to know some of Dylan’s oldest friends, Larry Kegan and Louis Kemp (of imitation crab meat fame).

He did indeed behave like a typical American Jew, concerned about his children and grandchildren, trying to remain a Jew without being ‘too Jewish’.


39 posted on 10/23/2016 7:10:47 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: duckman

Someone ought to make a movie out of Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts


40 posted on 10/23/2016 7:12:27 AM PDT by Califreak (Vote for Batman!)
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