The University of Minnesota Press recently collaborated with U of M News Service to create this video that features Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World, a compilation of essays edited by Colleen Sheehy and Thomas Swiss.
Check it out as Thomas Swiss breaks down Dylan’s Minnesota roots. He analyzes Dylan’s unique accent and discusses how a 19-year-old from Hibbing, MN, who borrowed folk records from roommates and schooled himself in music in New York, would go on to establish a hugely influential career that would make an impact on many cultures (Italy, Japan and the U.K.) and fields of study:
Trite, obvious, and occasionally wrong, but we'll let Bob have the last word:Where Ma Raney and Beethoven once unwrapped their bed rollTuba players now rehearse around the flagpoleAnd the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soulTo the old folks home and the college