Originally Posted by Glice

This is a pretty pointless thing for me to pursue at this point, I'm not going to convince anyone on this matter. Nevertheless... Dylan is the most popular of a very particular form of 'American folk'. Folk is a highly politicised genre, and in popularising it Dylan robbed all the particulars of political lyrics and replaced them with vague non-sequiturs. As I say, there's not much point me mentioning this, and it's ultimately my opinion rather than fact, but I do feel that it's quite a stretch to suggest Dylan did anything original.