Bob Dylan Research Paper

Bob Dylan, born with the name Robert Allen Zimmerman, was born in Duluth Minnesota. He was one of the most influential musicians in American music. One of the reasons why he grew to fame was because he took up controversial subjects and turned them into beautiful, poetic songs. Throughout Dylan’s life, starting in his youth, he has been caught up in the middle of some of the most significant historical events in American history. The 1900’s was a pronounced time for an unspoken youth to be heard as after-shocks of the world wars, improvement of technologies, various assassinations, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the civil rights movement struck a reform in the new generation to make a change to their previous society. As voices protested their opinions on each of these events became heard through speeches and riots, Bob Dylan’s voice became heard through his music. He reinvented folk to make folk rock and three of his most popular songs-- “Like a Rolling Stone”, a

Bob Dylan wrote many controversial songs that became anthems of the Civil Rights Movement. One of Bob Dylan’s most famous civil rights songs was “A Blowing in the Wind”. Full of lyrics with unanswered questions, “Blowing in the Wind” was a song that demanded change with the words—“how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes, how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?” Blowing in the Wind was performed by Peter, Paul and Mary on the Lincoln Memorial moments before Martain Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream Speech” on August 28, 1963. Bob Dylan claimed to be a Poet of the People, and at the time, the people wanted change. “Blowing in the Wind” became one of the Rolling Stones “Top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”, and served as the center of many protest movements in the