Place in culture, politics
Adamczewski, Tymon (Editor). All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World. (2021)
Banauch, Eugen. Refractions of Bob Dylan: Cultural Appropriations of an American Icon. (2015)
Boucher, David, and Gary Browning. The Political Art of Bob Dylan. (2004)
Cain, Michael Scott. Folk Music and the New Left in the Sixties. (2019)
Cran, Rona. Collage in Twentieth Century Art, Literture,a nd Culture: Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O’Hara, and Bob Dylan. (2014)
Doggett, Peter. Are You Ready for the Country: Elvis, Dylan, Parsons, and the Roots of Country Rock. (2001)
Dominguez, Freddy Cristobal. Bob Dylan in the Attic: The Artist as Historian. (2022)
Falco, Raphael. No One To Meet: Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan (2022)
Gilliland, John. Ballad in Plain D: An introduction to the Bob Dylan era. (1969)
Jones, Tudor. Bob Dylan and the British Sixties: a Cultural History. (2019)
Kaufman, David E. Jewhooing the Sixties: American Celebrity and Jewish Identity—Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbara Streisand. (2012)
Laurie, Gregg. Lennon, Dylan, Alice, and Jesus. (2022)
Marqusee, Mike. Chimes of Freedom: the Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art. (2003)
Marqusee, Mike. Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s. (2005)
Marshall, Lee. Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star. (2007)
Miles, K.G., and Jeff Towns. Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas: the Two Dylans (2023)
Otiono, Nduka. Polyvocal Bob Dylan: Music, Performance, Literature (Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature). (2019)
Ribakove, Sy and Barbara. Folk Rock: The Bob Dylan Story (1967; Scott Warmuth says this is the first book on Bob Dylan)
Santoro, Gene. Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music. (2004)
Shafer, John C. (translator). Trinh Cong So’n & Bob Dylan: Essays on War, Love, Songwriting, and Religion (2013 in Vietnamese) (2023)
Smiley, Larry David. Bob Dylan, Springsteen, and American Song. (2002)
Webster, Patrick. A Wanderer By Trade: Gender in the Songs of Bob Dylan. (2018)
Wilentz, Sean. Bob Dylan in America. (2010)
Windolf, Jim. Bob Dylan and the Beatles: Minds in Dialogue. (forthcoming)
Wolff, Daniel. Grown-up Anger: The connected mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913. (2017)