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Book Review: Chimes of Freedom: the politics of Bob Dylan’s art

midst of a wave of mass political radicalization, he interrogates the po­ litical as a category. No song on Another Side distressed Dylan's friends in the movement more than "My Back Pages;' in which he transmutes the rude incoherence ofhis ECLC rant into the organized density ofart. The lilting refrain-"I was so much older then / I'm younger than that nown-must be one of the most lyrical expressions ofpolitical apostasy ever penned. It is a recantation, in every sense of the word. Usually, po­ litical apostates justify themselves by invoking the inevitable super­ cession of youth and rebelliousness by maturity and responsibility. ("He who is not a radical when young has no heart;' an old saying goes, "he who remains a radical when old has no head:') Dylan reverses the polarity. The retreat from politics is a retreat from false and stale cate­ gories and acquired, secondhand attitudes. The antidote is a proud em­ brace of innocence and spontaneity. The refrain encapsulates the movement from the pretense of knowing it all to the confession of knowing nothing. In the song's opening verse, Dylan ridicules his earlier, protest-phase self. With the "crimson flames" of indignation roaring in his head, he had set out on "flaming roads / Using ideas as my maps:"