Bob Dylan (Self-Titled) | A Rocky Start w/ Matt Wanat

Start the journey through Bob Dylan’s extensive discography with an album that is… just okay? Or maybe it’s fantastic… we’re here to figure that out! Owen Keller interviews literature andfilm scholar Dr. Matthew Wanat to dissect the lyrics, production, and legacy of Bob Dylan’s debut self-titled album. Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-MzsxJhLFFPzByj0HJIMCtlj6U9RHiH9Dr. Matt Wanat is a Professor of English at Ohio University Lancaster. His books include Breaking Down Breaking Bad and The Films of Clint Eastwood, and Wanat has published critical essays, encyclopedia articles, reviews, and book chapters on a variety of authors and filmmakers. Wanat’s publications of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfictionare available in The Wayfarer, Coffin Bell, The Wax Paper, and Pennsylvania English. Wanat resides in rural southeastern Ohio. Wanat's interest in Bob Dylan's work is long-running, beginning with a senior thesis as an undergraduate, followed by dissertation chapters on Dylan's use of tropes ofthe Western and an early conference paper on authenticity claims of urban folk music revival during the late-fifties and early-sixties. But Wanat is foremost a fan rather than a "Dylanologist."