Bob Dylan and Nostalgia (with Court Carney)

In this episode, Laura talks to history professor Court Carney about Bob Dylan and Nostalgia – Dylan’s relationship to the past and the future, The Odyssey, and Don Draper.
Here are a few things we reference that you might want to check out:
Eric Lott’s book, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (archive.org/details/lovetheftblackfa0000lott), from which Dylan took the title of his 2001 album.
Mad Men - Carousel pitch (youtu.be/rq3n2sJ43Hg?si=sxukxzLIv6dDOgv0)
Mad Men - Don’t Think Twice scene (youtu.be/JSazEWslOAU?si=awIqhsggbURX2hQX)
You can buy The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: “Play a Song for Me”, edited by Court and Erin C Callahan here (routledge.com/The-Politics-and-Power-of-Bob-Dy…).
You can read my essay in this collection, “Today and Tomorrow and Yesterday Too”, about Bob Dylan and Time in the 2020s –which I think is highly relevant in the context of this conversation–for free over on Patreon (patreon.com/posts/today-and-and-in-139222168?u…).
And you can watch the talk I gave in Miami about film, painting, and making time stand still over here (youtu.be/8OOBvFH35sc?si=F8YegGPVU_sEooUI):
Court’s Substack (courtcarney.substack.com ) and website: courtcarney.com
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