The Hurricane

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Who is Robert Allen Zimmerman?

Bob Dylan - 24 mei 1941

Amerikaanse popmuzikant

Erg invloedrijk, hij was het boegbeeld van de onrust in de VS.

Hij schreef veel protestsongs.

* Blowin' in the Wind (melodie deels van slavenlied  "no more auction block"

Vertegenwoordiger van beweging van burgerrechten.

Hij trad op bij "I had a dream"

Zijn idool = Woody Guthrie

Introduceerde: stream of conciousness = literaire techniek (losse gedachten en invallen)

The Hurricane

On the album Desire 1976

A protest song

What about? 

Let's get away from here, it's the heat! 

Let's get out of here, it's hot. 

Laten we maken dat we wegkomen, het is hier heet

Laten we maken dat we wegkomen, het is de politie

Put the screws to someone

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
3. to cooperate with someone

To play ball with someone

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
3. To play basketball with someone
4. to cooperate with someone

His cards were marked in advance

1. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
2. the outcome was already known
3. to be under one's total influence, domination, or control

It is a pig-circus

1. It is a funny business
2. A false testimony
3. A trial with a bribed judge
4. a phony court trial, where generalizations are made about facts that don't exist in order to meet a predetermined outcome desired by the judge

To go along for the ride

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to be under one's total influence, domination, or control
3. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.

To be in the palm of someone's hand

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to cooperate with someone
3. To be under one's total influence, domination, or control.

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Dylan heeft meer protestsongs over dit onderwerp geschreven: The death of Emmet Till

The hurricane is geschreven in "cinematic style"

It had to be rerecorded, they were afraid of lawsuits.  Patricia Graham Valentine did file a lawsuit. 

First Rubin Carter got 

4 life sentences, then 2

Finally in 1985, the murder charges were dropped. He hadn't received a fair trial, the procesution was based on racism. 

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