Greil Marcus: 17 books
Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus
Writings 1968-2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of Minnesota-his very first appearance at his alma mater-on election night 2008. In between are moments of euphoric discovery: From Marcus's liner notes for the 1967 Basement Tapes (pop music's most famous...
by Greil Marcus
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Durante toda su vida, Greil Marcus, uno de los mejores pensadores vivos de la cultura popular, ha escuchado a The Doors, la banda liderada por el carismático y oscuro Jim Morrison, que, en tan solo cinco años (1967-1971), grabó algunas de las mejores canciones de la historia del rock. Con su estilo...
Present Tense
Rock & Roll and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 1992
The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense, Anthony DeCurtis brings...
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music-...
The Shape of Things to Come
Prophecy and the American Voice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity
"America is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, lynch mobs and escapes; its greatest testaments are made of...
by Greil Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Unlike all previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then proceeds to dramatize how each...
Mystery Train
Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The perfect gift for music fans and anyone who loves artists like Elvis Presley, Randy Newman, Sly Stone, Robert Johnson, and Harmonica Frank.
In 1975, Greil Marcus’s Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock ’n’ roll and continues to be sought out today by music fans and...
Double Trouble
Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2001
From the critic who knows music and culture like no other, a fascinating look at two outsiders who epitomize America's fractured self-image
In June of 1992, when all polls showed Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall Show, put on dark glasses, and blew...
The Doors
A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
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...
The Old, Weird America
The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A Special Edition with a New Introduction and an Updated Discography
This is Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967, which introduced a phrase that has become part of the culture: "the old, weird America." It is this country that the...
Rockabilly
The Twang Heard 'Round the World: The Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
It was the twang heard 'round the world: Rockabilly was born out of country, bluegrass, jazz, and the blues in the 1950s, becoming rock ’n’ roll and ruling the world. Here’s the story of Elvis Presley’s first Sun records that inspired all. And here’s Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran,...
by Greil Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Best Music Writing has faithfully collected the year's most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so it's appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music and popular culture, Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces, Mystery Train, Like a Rolling Stone,...
by Greil Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Greil Marcus delves into three distinct episodes in the history of American commonplace song and shows how each one manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by no one. In these seemingly anonymous productions, we discover three different ways of talking about the United States, and three separate nations within its borders.
Real Life Rock
The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called “Real Life Rock Top Ten.” It has been a laboratory where he has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements. Taken together, his musings,...
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