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One of the most popular Christmas traditions in New JOIN US FOR SPECIAL MUSIC CELEBRATIONS OF LOS FOR THE CASUAL FAN AND "DYLANOLOGISTS" THE BOB DYLAN CENTER IS AN ARCHIVE WITH THOUSANDS OF ITEMS DEDICATED TO THE LIFE AND WORK OF BOB DYLAN.

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A NEW MEXICO CHRISTMAS TRADITION.

>>Jeremiah Martinez: The posadas always gave me like the encouragement to say, "I want to pray for something really big," you know that our community would be blessed and that it would be safe and pray for those that are sick and also for the world, you know, if I could say a prayer for the world it would be that we all got along better and that we would all open our hearts like the song of Las Posadas to the baby Jesus and let him be reborn in our lives and try and approach the following year a little more carefully and patiently and lovingly and uh it's meant so much to me over the years the Las Posadas meaning and the participation also of the community and of family.

Allow the spirit to work guys okay.

[Cantando Las Posadas - In Spanish] >>David Garcia: Some of the traditions that we're sharing this evening is about the external becoming internal and so a lot of this has to do with the outsiders being welcomed inside and so the kind of the metaphor for Las Posadas literally is the Holy Family traveling from Nazareth to Bethlehem and when they get to Bethlehem they have no lodging and so one of the issues is that they go door-to-door knocking and so one part of the group of the singers represents those people, the houses they knocked on that didn't want to allow them to come in.

[Knock, knock, knock] [Las Posadas de la Segrada Familia por Jermiahs Martinez] >>Jeremiah Martinez: You know it would be nice if we would all reach out and try and help in some way.

That's what the tradition is to us is that we reach out for those less fortunate or to try and help with what we can if it's not with food it could be with clothes or just to allow someone into your home.

[Knocking sound] [Entrada de los Peregrinos] >>David Garcia: I wanted to end with this in terms of thinking about Posadas.

Is, at the end when there is a realization that this is the Holy Family, there's celebration, they say "Avricias, Entren Santos Peregrinos," you know they say and that's supposed to be a joyous welcoming them in.

So, the doors are opened and so that's a central metaphor for our communities in terms of that even if you know in the past it was important to always respect the visitor.

Respect, give, feed the visitor.

Feed and clothe the poor, and so those particular things are deep-seated values within our communities and within these traditions that we share.

[Navidad, Navidad] DYLANOLOGY "What is Bob Dylan?"

"What is Bob Dylan?

"That's not an easy question at all."

"Could you ask that question again?

"The most important American popular artist of the 20th century."

"He received the Noble Prize winner in literature."

"I think he's one of our great singers... "He's a jokester."

"He's inscrutable.

He's an enigma.

He's weird..." "I don't know..." "He's a moving target."

"An apparition in many ways."

"Every time you think you've nailed him down, he wriggles free."

We are finally at long last opening the Bob Dylan Center right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma... (applause) When Bob Dylan started his career six decades ago, it was a time of JFK, troops going to Vietnam, Civil Rights marches.

And his earliest songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A- Changing" reflected the mood of the times "Bob's voice was redefining, not just what music sounded like, but the message is carried and how it made people feel."

But he didn't stop there.

He went on to make 39 studio albums, hundreds of classics.

He also makes movies, writes books, paints.

He even welds.

I guess it's a little bit like what Johnny Cash wrote about Dylan on the back of this 1969 Bob Dylan album, Nashville Skyline.

Johnny writes, "Here- in is a hell of a poet, and lots of other things, lots of other things."

(Johnny says it twice.)

How can one explore those things about Bob Dylan?

Go to Tulsa.

(singing in Cherokee) This is an archive of a hundred thousand items, give or take, all dedicated to the life and work of Bob Dylan...who I think it's safe to say has stood alone in American music and culture for the past 60 years.

Dylan reminded us in his poem-songs, that every one of us has a story.

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Let's open the Bob Dylan Center!

The idea from the get-go was to build a home, create a home for these materials, which really provide, uh, an unprecedented deep look into Dylan's life and work, for folks who are either Dylan diehards.

Usually self- professed, the Dylanologists from all around the world.

And folks who maybe have a somewhat more casual interaction or knowledge of Dylan.

More than half of the 29,000 square feet is given over to public exhibition space.

You walk into the immersive film experience.

You'll be immersed in this and I hope emerge about 18 minutes later having felt like you have a good sense of Dylan's origins.

Then you walk into the Columbia Records Gallery.

This is quite a large space where you have along the perimeter walls, the closest thing we have to a chronology of Dylan's life and career.

We go deep into six songs.

We have things like "Like a Rolling Stone," "Tangled Up in Blue," "Jokerman."

And the quadrants reveal the writing, the recording, the producing, the performing of these songs.

(Dylan singing "Hollis Brown.")

It's amazing.

It's the sort of stuff that, you know, as a Dylan fan, you've maybe heard whispers of or rumors of.

It feels like it's around every corner.

Oh look, it's the Plugz!

I love this.

In 1984, Bob Dylan played on David Letterman and he had this totally obscure punk band play with him.

The Plugz.

They were as surprised as anyone to be on national TV with Dylan.

Dylan always keeps you guessing.

You never know what he's going to do next.

I love it.

(Dylan singing "Jokerman.")

I serve as the Director of the Institute for Bob Dylan Studies.

So I put together this course, it was just called "Bob Dylan."

I had 26 students sign up for the course on the first day.

They learn all about the context of America after the Second World War.

"From New York, Bob Dylan."

But they also get with what Dylan gives to all of us, which is this extraordinary deep dive into the history of popular song in America, right?

(Singing) "They're selling postcards of the hanging.

They're painting the passports brown."

Dylan himself didn't know to save all of this stuff.

He wasn't saving ticket stubs from his concerts, but these collectors were.

They were the ones that were recording these, all of these shows, yes, surreptitiously against the rules that are pinned up everywhere when you go to a Dylan show.

"No recording devices allowed, or we'll throw you out."

They managed to sneak their recording devices in.

That has become an integral part of the archive.

This archive would not be as interesting or as rich as it is if doing this extraordinary work.

I started acquiring things early on.

You know, I have been listening to Bob since approximately '62, and I saw him live in '64 for the first time.

It all starts with the music.

It would include cassettes, open-reel tapes, DATS of course.

A lot of the flyers, the programs, all of the detritus, the tchotchkes of that world.

Collecting can be a type of a disease, compulsive obsessiveness.

I'm very proud of the fact that my program from Newport '65 now lives in a glass case with Bob's leather jacket.

(Dylan singing) "Like a complete unknown, like a Rolling Stone."

One part of the collection is considered the "holy grail" to Dylanologists: these three little notebooks here.

Dylan worked on these, scribbling lyrics to his 1975 masterpiece, "Blood on the Tracks."

One professor had been able to study one of these, but never all three.

In 2018, I was invited to come out to Tulsa and allowed to look at the other two "Blood on the Tracks" notebooks, which are in the Dylan archive here... it was a phenomenal experience.

(Dylan singing) "Lord knows you paid some dues getting through, tangled up in blue."

I spent a lot of time in Tulsa.

I spent 10 weeks here over four visits doing the research for "The Double Life of Bob Dylan."

I couldn't have done it without the Tulsa archive.

When I first heard the Dylan archives was going to be here in Tulsa, I had the exact same reaction as everybody else.

I thought, why is that happening?

But then of course, when I thought about it, perhaps being somewhere else in New York, it seemed weird.

I mean, for a lot of different reasons, this seemed like the perfect place.

There's the beautiful synchronicity of the Woody Guthrie archive already being here.

And Bob Dylan himself has mentioned that that is one of the reasons why he is very happy with his material going to Tulsa, because Woody Guthrie was such an important influence on Dylan.

There's a rich cultural ecosystem here that I'm proud to say the Dylan Center and our sister organization, the Woody Guthrie Center, are part of.... And there's something here, Dylan just characterized it recently as the "hum of the Heartland" that I think sets us apart from the coasts.

So the World Capital of Dylanology, the Bob Dylan Center, is in Tulsa.

And it's a dream for Dylan fans like... me.

But I think there's something for everyone here.

Like this quote.

"Life isn't about finding yourself, or finding anything.

Life is about creating yourself, and creating things."

That's a theme that's been true of Dylan his whole career.

And he may have been speaking of his own philosophy here.

But I do think he intends it as an offering for us too.

And it's a philosophy that looks really good on a pencil.

Thank you, Bob.

(Dylan singing) "Once upon a time never comes again."

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