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“Folk Music” traces Bob Dylan’s life through seven songs

Once some thought him an impostor. For Greil Marcus, he is a medium

View, from behind, of American musician Bob Dylan as he plays acoustic guitar during a performance at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 1963. Audience members sit on the grass of the tennis court at the ivy-covered buildings of the Newport Casino (later the National, and then International, Tennis Hall of Fame). (Photo by Rowland Scherman/Getty Images)

Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs. By Greil Marcus. Yale University Press; 288 pages; $27.50 and £20

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