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=Evaluation of Sources (250-400 words) Tips]=

The first majour source I used as part of my investigation was the book "Bob Dylan: The Stories Behind the Songs 1962-1969" by Andy Gill. Gill is a music critic for The Independent, a renowned British daily newspaper. The book is also a part of a series entitled //The Stories Behind the Songs// which goes into similar levels of depth about such artists as David Bowie and Bob Marley. In addition to this the book was also published by //Carlton Books// which adds to it reliability. Upon studying the book I can determine that its original purpose was to inform the reader as to the purposes behind Dylan's works, rather than to persuade them. This is obvious as most of the statements the author makes as to what Dylan's intentions were are backed up by fact. However the source does have it's limitations when it comes to usefulness in this investigation. This is because rather than informing the reader exactly of Dylan's intentions the author gives us a little background information of the circumstances before then making an assumption of what Dylan's purposes were. This is probably because Gill did not have direct access to Dylan so he had to make an informed decision. Although it could be said that because of Gill's musical background and process of assessment that his conclusions could be similar to the truth.

Another source that I used was the website www.bobdylan.com which is run by Sony Music Entertainment. I used this website mainly for information about the songs I was writing my investigation on. The main purpose of the website would appear to be to inform reader about Bob Dylan at the present time, tour dates etc. I used it as a means of studying the lyrics of his work because in a section of the website there is a database of all of Dylan's works. For this particular project I would say that this website is not particularly useful as it merely gives the lyrics and no insight into the work. However I did find it useful as it gave information such as the album from which it came, and where it was first preformed.