Abstract
This article looks at how a different world, a mythical version
of America, is created on Bob Dylan’s 1975 album The Basement
Tapes by reflecting on Rolling Stone-critic Greil Marcus’ ideas on ‘The Old-Weird America’. Using the Romantic idea of mythology and the Transcendentalist poetics of Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson as a theoretical backdrop and the Anthology of American Folk Music as a template, it tries to find a different America in the songs on The Basement Tapes.