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Monk's Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer Of 1966
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- Book Title
- Monk's Record Player : Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Eerdmans Publishing Company, William B.
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Features
- New Edition
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Religion, Social Science
- Topic
- Spirituality, Religious, Composers & Musicians, Popular Culture
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 13 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 263 Pages
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The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them together In 1965 writer-activist-monk Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger of losing it all. Yet on the very day that his abbot uncovered the affair, Merton found solace in an unlikely place--the songs of Bob Dylan, who, as fate would have it, was experiencing his own personal and creative crises during the summer of 1966. In this striking parallel biography of two countercultural icons, Robert Hudson plumbs the depths of Dylan's surprising influence on Merton's life and writing, recounts each man's interactions with the woman who linked them together--Joan Baez--and shows how each transcended his immediate troubles and went on to new heights of spiritual and artistic genius. Readers will discover here a riveting story of creativity and crisis, burnout and redemption, in the tumultuous era of 1960s America.
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Eerdmans Publishing Company, William B.
ISBN-10
0802877559
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9780802877550
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Book Title
Monk's Record Player : Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Topic
Spirituality, Religious, Composers & Musicians, Popular Culture
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Religion, Social Science
Number of Pages
263 Pages
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Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
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New Edition
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Booklist "There are many books about Merton already, but Robert Hudson, merging his fascinations with Merton and Dylan, writes so limpidly that shelf room just must be made for this one." Steve Rabey -- best-selling author and journalist "Robert Hudson's revealing 'parallel biography' shows how two of the most prolific and influential figures in the 1960s, both perpetually restless spiritual pilgrims, shared a passion for prophetic poetry, an opposition to the war in Vietnam, and a boundless inquisitiveness. In this enjoyable and insightful book Hudson connects dots that other Merton scholars have overlooked." Rowan Williams -- former Archbishop of Canterbury "A warm and vivid picture of two very different but unexpectedly related countercultural icons in that extraordinary mid-sixties moment of hope and imaginative enlargement. This book enables us to see some of the deep currents of that era and to reacquaint ourselves with two great, unclassifiable figures." John W. Whitehead -- author of Battlefield America and A Government of Wolves "Artfully demonstrates how the minds of two individual cultural icons merge with a message that all the world needs to hear. Difficult to put down once you open the first page and begin to read." Scott M. Marshall -- author of Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life "A gloriously detailed account of two solitary yet world-famous artists in a decade that still bears surprising fruit. Hudson's book takes you on an unexpected journey with Merton and Dylan--an enlightening, challenging, and refreshing hiatus from the demands of our digital age." David Dalton -- from foreword "You may think, as I at first did, that pairing a Utopian hermit monk and a demon-haunted rock star is just plain perverse or at the very least willfully paradoxical. But there you'd be dead wrong. . . . In the end it's Bob Hudson's love for Thomas Merton and Bob Dylan that's the alchemical fire that makes [this book] work. As curious as this cockamamie pairing is, The Monk's Record Player is a meditation on inspiration, contact highs, and the unknowable workings of the cosmos." Publishers Weekly "Hudson weaves a fun tale of cross-cultural influence in this exploration of Bob Dylan's influence on Thomas Merton." Christian Market "Hudson informs and enthralls readers. . . . This book is a profound meditation of apparent contradictions. Any adult interested in U.S. history and culture, religion, philosophy, art, literature, or music will enjoy this well-written and very readable book." Library Journal "Fascinating. . . . While Nobel Prize winner Dylan has always maintained a distinct celebrity, Merton's renown has dimmed somewhat, and it's nice to see this crusader for world peace introduced to a new generation of readers in such an intriguing way." America "Entertaining. . . . One does get the sense that Dylan would have liked Merton as much as the monk admired and emulated him." Commonweal "The unlikely pairing of Dylan and Merton is the charm of the book. . . . Delightfully difficult to classify. Neither scholarly disquisition nor celebrity bio, it is rather history in the form of a fable: not dark but rather light comedy. It is light that illumines, finally, a direction home: through solemn vows, a solidarity born of forgiveness, and at least a touch of rock-and-roll." Catholic News Service "Runs circles around any mere biographical treatment of either Father Merton or Dylan. . . . This book teaches lessons in spirituality the reader may not expect but from which he or she will benefit deeply.", Booklist "There are many books about Merton already, but Robert Hudson, merging his fascinations with Merton and Dylan, writes so limpidly that shelf room just must be made for this one." Steve Rabey -- best-selling author and journalist "Robert Hudson's revealing 'parallel biography' shows how two of the most prolific and influential figures in the 1960s, both perpetually restless spiritual pilgrims, shared a passion for prophetic poetry, an opposition to the war in Vietnam, and a boundless inquisitiveness. In this enjoyable and insightful book Hudson connects dots that other Merton scholars have overlooked." Rowan Williams -- former Archbishop of Canterbury "A warm and vivid picture of two very different but unexpectedly related countercultural icons in that extraordinary mid-sixties moment of hope and imaginative enlargement. This book enables us to see some of the deep currents of that era and to reacquaint ourselves with two great, unclassifiable figures." John W. Whitehead -- author of Battlefield America and A Government of Wolves "Artfully demonstrates how the minds of two individual cultural icons merge with a message that all the world needs to hear. Difficult to put down once you open the first page and begin to read." Scott M. Marshall -- author of Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life "A gloriously detailed account of two solitary yet world-famous artists in a decade that still bears surprising fruit. Hudson's book takes you on an unexpected journey with Merton and Dylan--an enlightening, challenging, and refreshing hiatus from the demands of our digital age." David Dalton -- from foreword "You may think, as I at first did, that pairing a Utopian hermit monk and a demon-haunted rock star is just plain perverse or at the very least willfully paradoxical. But there you'd be dead wrong. . . . In the end it's Bob Hudson's love for Thomas Merton and Bob Dylan that's the alchemical fire that makes [this book work. As curious as this cockamamie pairing is, The Monk's Record Player is a meditation on inspiration, contact highs, and the unknowable workings of the cosmos." Publishers Weekly "Hudson weaves a fun tale of cross-cultural influence in this exploration of Bob Dylan's influence on Thomas Merton." Christian Market "Hudson informs and enthralls readers. . . . This book is a profound meditation of apparent contradictions. Any adult interested in U.S. history and culture, religion, philosophy, art, literature, or music will enjoy this well-written and very readable book." Library Journal "Fascinating. . . . While Nobel Prize winner Dylan has always maintained a distinct celebrity, Merton's renown has dimmed somewhat, and it's nice to see this crusader for world peace introduced to a new generation of readers in such an intriguing way." America "Entertaining. . . . One does get the sense that Dylan would have liked Merton as much as the monk admired and emulated him." Commonweal "The unlikely pairing of Dylan and Merton is the charm of the book. . . . Delightfully difficult to classify. Neither scholarly disquisition nor celebrity bio, it is rather history in the form of a fable: not dark but rather light comedy. It is light that illumines, finally, a direction home: through solemn vows, a solidarity born of forgiveness, and at least a touch of rock-and-roll." Catholic News Service "Runs circles around any mere biographical treatment of either Father Merton or Dylan. . . . This book teaches lessons in spirituality the reader may not expect but from which he or she will benefit deeply."
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