This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

Instead, though, I Googled Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” It seemed like a very Northland thing to do. Dylan’s music takes me to another imperfect, but simpler, time. I’ll just get lost ...