David Rea

I have a particular interest in music’s connections with politics, history and culture. I am the author of Things Can Only Get Better: A History of 20th Century Britain Told through its Greatest Songs, for which I'm currently seeking publication. My fiction has been published in the Fortnightly Review and Night Train, shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and long-listed for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
How Bob Dylan Reinvented the Blues Highway for Contemporary America
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How Bob Dylan Reinvented the Blues Highway for Contemporary America

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 / 5 November 2024

Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited” captures America at the peak of the civil rights struggle when African Americans were forced to fight for a country that had left them impoverished and disenfranchised.