Thursday, October 16, 2025

A Small Bucket of Academic Writings on Bob Dylan

At some point a few years back I received an email asking, "Are you the Ed Newman who authored this paper on Thus-and-So." I replied that I was not, but decided to look into it further and was amazed at how comprehensive this website (Academia.edu) was.  

As it turns out, Academia.edu is a popular online platform primarily focused on the academic and research community. It serves as a centralized hub for sharing, discovering, and accessing scholarly content, often described as a "social network for researchers." Launched in 2008, it has grown into one of the largest repositories of user-uploaded academic papers, with over 296 million registered users and more than 55 million PDFs available for free download. 


After researching the site, I downloaded a couple academic papers about Bob Dylan. Since that time I have regularly received emails asking I were the Ed Newman who wrote this or that or some other document. More often I receive emails telling me about a Bob Dylan related paper that has been uploaded.


Here is one of these emails, with links to ten academic papers about various aspects of Bob Dylan. Have fun.





You read the paper Book Review: Christopher Rollason, ‘Read Books, Repeat Quotations’: The.... We found a related paper on Academia:

BD BMCR 2018 2018.11.51 Review of Richard Thomas Why Bob Dylan Matters.pdf
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2018, Bryn Mawr Classical review
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ABSTRACT
A review of Richard Thomas, Why Bob Dylan Matters, written specifically for classicists, broadly defined. In this book, you will get a sweeping overview of Dylan’s songs and writings, their cultural significance—what personal experiences and concerns, intellectual influences and historical issues called them into...
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