genre oxford town
`` Oxford Town '' is a ___MASK38___ written by American singer - songwriter Bob Dylan in 1962 . It was recorded in Columbia ' s Studio A on December 6 , 1962 for his second album , The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan . The ___MASK38___ was composed in response to an open invitation from Broadside magazine for songs about one of the top news events of 1962 : the enrollment of a black student , James Meredith , in the University of Mississippi on October 1 . Among other submissions was Phil Ochs ' ___MASK38___ `` Ballad of Oxford , Mississippi '' . The lyrics and music from Dylan ' s ___MASK38___ were printed December 1962 in Broadside ' s issue # 17 . Except that the University of Mississippi is located in Oxford , Mississippi , `` Oxford Town '' does not mention either Meredith or the university by name . Later , in an interview with Studs Terkel , Dylan said , `` It deals with the Meredith case , but then again it does n ' t ... I wrote that when it happened , and I could have written that yesterday . It ' s still the same . ' Why does n ' t somebody investigate soon ' that ' s a verse in the ___MASK38___ . '' Besides the Freewheelin ' release , Dylan recorded a version of `` Oxford Town '' for Broadside Sessions in November 1962 . He also recorded a demo of the ___MASK38___ for his music publisher M . Witmark & Sons in March 1963 . This version was released in October 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol . 9 -- The Witmark Demos : 1962 -- 1964 . A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics , melodies and chord progressions for songs , typically for a ___MASK18___ genre such as rock or country music . A songwriter can also be called a composer , although the latter term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the ___MASK98___ genre . The pressure from the music industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people . For example , a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies . Pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers  songwriters directly employed by music publishers . Some songwriters serve as their own music publishers , while others have outside publishers . " Masters of ___MASK4___ " is a ___MASK38___ by Bob Dylan , written over the winter of 1962  63 and released on the album " The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan " in the spring of 1963 . The ___MASK38___ ' s melody was adapted from the traditional " Nottamun Town ". Dylan ' s lyrics are a protest against the Cold ___MASK4___ arms build - up of the early 1960s . " A Hard Rain ' s a - Gonna Fall " is a ___MASK38___ written by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962 . It was first recorded in Columbia Records ' Studio A on December 6 , 1962 for his second album " The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan ". The lyrical structure is based on the question and answer form of traditional ballads such as Lord Randall . Dylan has stated that all of the lyrics were taken from the initial lines of songs that " he thought he would never have time to write ." " Don ' t Think Twice , It ' s All Right " is a ___MASK38___ written by Bob Dylan in 1962 , recorded on November 14 that year , and released on the 1963 album " The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan " and as a single . A musician ( or instrumentalist ) is a person who plays a ___MASK75___ instrument or is musically talented . Anyone who composes , conducts , or performs music may also be referred to as a musician . Columbia Records ( also known simply as Columbia ) is an American record label owned by Sony ___MASK8___ ___MASK65___ ( SME ), a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America , Inc ., the United States division of Sony Corporation . It was founded in 1887 , evolving from an earlier enterprise named the American Graphophone Company , the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company . Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business , being the second major record company to produce recorded records . Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of notable singers , instrumentalists , and bands . From 1961 to 1990 , its recordings were released outside the U . S . and Canada by the CBS Records label ( which was named after the Columbia Broadcasting System ) to avoid confusion with the EMI label of the same name , before adopting the Columbia name internationally in 1990 . It is one of Sony ___MASK8___ ' s three flagship record labels alongside RCA Records and Epic Records . American ___MASK29___ is a ___MASK75___ term that encompasses numerous genres , many of which are known as traditional music , traditional ___MASK29___ , contemporary ___MASK29___ or roots music . Many traditional songs have been sung within the same family or folk group for generations , and can sometimes be traced back to such places of origin as Great Britain , Europe , or Africa . Mike Seeger once famously commented that the definition of American ___MASK29___ is " All the music that fits between the cracks ." Rolling Stone is an American biweekly ___MASK95___ that focuses on popular ___MASK82___ . It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner , who is still the ___MASK95___ ' s publisher , and the music critic Ralph J . Gleason . It was first known for its ___MASK75___ coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S . Thompson . In the 1990s , the ___MASK95___ shifted focus to a younger readership interested in youth - oriented television shows , film actors , and popular music . In recent years , it has resumed its traditional mix of content . ___MASK29___ includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival . The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that . Some types of ___MASK29___ are also called world music . " Traditional ___MASK29___ " has been defined in several ways : as music transmitted orally , music with unknown composers , or music performed by custom over a long period of time . It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles . Bob Dylan ( born Robert Allen Zimmerman , May 24 , 1941 ) is an American songwriter , singer , artist , and writer . He has been influential in ___MASK18___ and ___MASK82___ for more than five decades . Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s , when his songs chronicled social unrest . Early songs such as " Blowin ' in the Wind " and " The Times They Are a - Changin '" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti - war movements . Leaving behind his initial base in the American folk music revival , his six - minute single " Like a Rolling Stone ", recorded in 1965 , enlarged the range of ___MASK18___ . The American folk - ___MASK8___ revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid - 1960s . Its roots went earlier , and performers like Josh White , Burl Ives , Woody Guthrie , Lead Belly , Big Bill Broonzy , Richard Dyer - Bennet , Oscar Brand , Jean Ritchie , John Jacob Niles , Susan Reed , Paul Robeson and Cisco Houston had enjoyed a limited general popularity in the 1930s and 1940s . The revival brought forward styles of American ___MASK29___ that had , in earlier times , contributed to the development of country and ___MASK67___ , jazz , and rock and roll ___MASK8___ . A writer is a person who uses written words in ___MASK90___ styles and techniques to communicate their ideas . Writers produce ___MASK90___ forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels , short stories , ___MASK30___ , plays , screenplays , and essays as well as ___MASK90___ reports and news articles that may be of interest to the public . Writers ' texts are published across a range of media . Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a ___MASK33___ . The word is also used elsewhere in the arts  such as songwriter  but as a standalone term , " writer " normally refers to the creation of written language . Some writers work from an oral tradition . Singer - songwriters are musicians who write , compose , and perform their own ___MASK75___ material , including lyrics and melodies . Lyrics are words that make up a ___MASK38___ usually consisting of verses and choruses . The writer of lyrics is a lyricist . The words to an extended ___MASK75___ composition such as an opera are , however , usually known as a " ___MASK3___ " and their writer , as a " librettist ". The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit . Some lyrics are abstract , almost unintelligible , and , in such cases , their explication emphasizes form , articulation , meter , and symmetry of expression . Rappers can also create lyrics with a variation of rhyming words or words that create and tell a story or ___MASK38___ . An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating ___MASK45___ , practicing the arts or demonstrating an ___MASK45___ . The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the ___MASK76___ only . The term is often used in the ___MASK65___ business , especially in a business context , for musicians and other performers ( less often for actors ). " Artiste " ( the French for artist ) is a variant used in English only in this context . Use of the term to describe writers , for example , is valid , but less common , and mostly restricted to contexts like ___MASK86___ . " Like a Rolling Stone " is a 1965 ___MASK38___ by the American singer - songwriter Bob Dylan . Its confrontational lyrics originated in an extended piece of verse Dylan wrote in June 1965 , when he returned exhausted from a grueling tour of England . Dylan distilled this draft into four verses and a chorus . " Like a Rolling Stone " was recorded a few weeks later as part of the sessions for the forthcoming album " Highway 61 Revisited ". The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan is the second studio ___MASK54___ by American singer - songwriter Bob Dylan , released on May 27 , 1963 by Columbia Records . Whereas his self - titled debut ___MASK54___ " Bob Dylan " had contained only two original songs , " Freewheelin " represented the beginning of Dylan ' s writing contemporary words to traditional melodies . Eleven of the thirteen songs on the ___MASK54___ are Dylan ' s original compositions . The ___MASK54___ opens with " Blowin ' in the Wind ", which became an anthem of the 1960s , and an international hit for folk trio Peter , Paul & Mary soon after the release of " Freewheelin ". The ___MASK54___ featured several other songs which came to be regarded as among Dylan ' s best compositions and classics of the 1960s folk scene : " Girl from the North Country ", " Masters of War ", " A Hard Rain ' s a - Gonna Fall " and " Don ' t Think Twice , It ' s All Right ". " Blowin ' in the Wind " is a ___MASK38___ written by Bob Dylan in 1962 and released as a single and on his album " The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan " in 1963 . Although it has been described as a ___MASK1___ , it poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace , war and freedom . The refrain " The answer , my friend , is blowin ' in the wind " has been described as " impenetrably ambiguous : either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face , or the answer is as intangible as the wind ". " Girl from the North ___MASK58___ " ( occasionally known as " Girl " of " the North ___MASK58___ ") is a ___MASK38___ written by Bob Dylan . It was recorded at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City in April 1963 , and released the following month as the second track on Dylan ' s second studio album , " The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan ." Dylan re - recorded the ___MASK38___ as a duet with Johnny Cash in February 1969 . That recording became the opening track on " Nashville Skyline ", Dylan ' s ninth studio album .