The Song and Dance Man. Bob Dylan lives in that moment between a whisper and a cry, where words stop behaving — and begin to sing. He electrifies poetry, turns folk into upheaval and protest into pop, expanding what a song can be. Born in 1941 as Robert Zimmerman in Minnesota, he finds his truth on the radio and arrives in New York at twenty — not to preserve folk, but to reinvent it. Greenwich Village becomes his laboratory, and Dave Van Ronk, the scene’s “janitor,” shows him that...