Not many people are aware of Dylan's relationship to critical theory but it can be heard here in these previously undiscovered verses from Gotta Serve Somebody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKTA9u1c0eA
As it says under the video:
"In the early 80's, a few years after the release of Saved, Bob Dylan spent a term at the North London Polytechnic were he did an Introduction to Modern Philosophy course under the tutelage of "Red" Reg Birk. It was this experience that moved him away from his Christian phase. This is a rendition of 4 previously unknown verses from Gotta Serve Somebody written during Dylan's time at North London Poly. It clearly demonstrates his transition from Christianity to evangelical post-structuarlism. The words were preserved by Red Reg and are here performed by his son Vladimir Birk, founder of the Enfield Naturist Railway Workers Association."
Here is a transcript of the words;
You might be reading the bible, you might be reading Hegel.
You might like to eat a savaloy, you may prefer a bagel.
You might be a master, you might be a slave
There maybe some other dialectic that you crave
You might be pre-socratic or just a metaphysician
Or hold another philosophically untenable position
You might be Platonically in pursuit of the truth
Or you might be like Plato in pursuit of a youth
Your mustard might be Djon, Your sausage from Toulouse
You might put them both together like Guattari and Deleuze
Ontological dereliction might be your existential load
As you’re schlepping on your bike down the Holloway road.
You might be a queen living in a palace
You might be a king who claims to possess the phallus
You might not be either a borrower or a lender
Performatively problematising our notions of gender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKTA9u1c0eA
As it says under the video:
"In the early 80's, a few years after the release of Saved, Bob Dylan spent a term at the North London Polytechnic were he did an Introduction to Modern Philosophy course under the tutelage of "Red" Reg Birk. It was this experience that moved him away from his Christian phase. This is a rendition of 4 previously unknown verses from Gotta Serve Somebody written during Dylan's time at North London Poly. It clearly demonstrates his transition from Christianity to evangelical post-structuarlism. The words were preserved by Red Reg and are here performed by his son Vladimir Birk, founder of the Enfield Naturist Railway Workers Association."
Here is a transcript of the words;
You might be reading the bible, you might be reading Hegel.
You might like to eat a savaloy, you may prefer a bagel.
You might be a master, you might be a slave
There maybe some other dialectic that you crave
You might be pre-socratic or just a metaphysician
Or hold another philosophically untenable position
You might be Platonically in pursuit of the truth
Or you might be like Plato in pursuit of a youth
Your mustard might be Djon, Your sausage from Toulouse
You might put them both together like Guattari and Deleuze
Ontological dereliction might be your existential load
As you’re schlepping on your bike down the Holloway road.
You might be a queen living in a palace
You might be a king who claims to possess the phallus
You might not be either a borrower or a lender
Performatively problematising our notions of gender
