Introduction: Memory, Voice, and the Global Bob Dylan
1. Songs of Innocence and Experience
2. The Text and the Voice
3. Talking Atomic Blues
4. Which Way History?
Appendix: History's Lessons Unlearned
Notes
Index of Names
Index of Albums
Index of Songs

Alessandro Portelli is professor emeritus of American literature at the University of Rome and was for many years a faculty member of the Columbia Oral History Summer Institute. His books include The Text and the Voice: Writing, Speaking, Democracy, and American Literature (Columbia, 1994) and They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History (2011).