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A New Literary History of America by Ed. Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors
Category: History
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along - a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and edit ...Show more
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
Category: History | Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along - a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and edit ...Show more
Bob Dylan: Writings, 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus
Category: Biography
Greil Marcus weaves individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. This book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of Minnesota on election night 2008. In between are moments of euphoric discovery: from Marcus' sleeve notes fo ...Show more
Doors by Greil Marcus
Category: Biography
A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after the singer Jim Morris ...Show more
Folk Music - A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
Category: Music
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "Marcus delivers yet another essential work of music journalism."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Further elevates Marcus to what he has always been: a supreme artist-critic."--Hilton Als Ac ...Show more
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
Category: Music
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan's imagination better. . . . Folk Music . . ...Show more
Like A Rolling Stone by Greil Marcus
Category: Music
In 1965, one song defined a generation caught the questing spirit of the era and changed the rules of the possible in popular music for all time. At that point it was the longest hit single to be released, at six minutes and six seconds in length nearly three times longer than the average single. Greil ...Show more
Like A Rolling Stone : Bob Dylan at the crossroads by Greil Marcus
Category: unmapped
The preeminent musicologist and prolific author presents a rhapsodic appreciation of his and Bob Dylan's favorite song - one that defined an era but has, remained timeless in its originality and power.
Lipstick Traces : A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
Category: Fiction
A cult classic in a new edition. This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. The song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of modern society once ...Show more
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
Category: Culture
Greil Marcus, author of "Mystery Train", widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked t ...Show more
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
Category: Culture
Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the ...Show more