Bob Dylan receives honorary Pulitzer Prize
“ It was the first time Pulitzer judges, who have long favored classical music, and, more recently, jazz, awarded an art form once dismissed as barbaric, even subversive.”
APRIL 07, 2008
Bob Dylan receives honorary Pulitzer Prize
It was the first time Pulitzer judges, who have long favored classical music, and, more recently, jazz, awarded an art form once dismissed as barbaric, even subversive.
Bob Dylan was awarded with the special citation on Monday, April 7, making history as the first rock and roll artist to be honored. Singer, songwriter, author, musician, and poet, was recognized for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”