Greil Marcus
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan’s story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus’s point of departure is Dylan’s ability to “see myself in others.” Like Dylan’s songs, this...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The best critic of popular culture in America considers the attraction of the Doors, which has endured despite the band's short life, sampling the lasting songs and legendary performances that made Jim Morrison and his band rock 'n' roll legends. A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock 'n' roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the...
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 portents and warnings, biblical allusions that lose all certainty in the American air." It is this story of self-invention and nationhood that Greil Marcus rediscovers,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 anyone interested in pop culture. Looking at recordings by six key artists-Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley-Marcus offers a complex and unprecedented analysis of the relationship between rock 'n' roll and American culture. In this latest edition, Marcus...
6) Under the red, white and blue: patriotism, disenchantment and the stubborn myth of the Great Gatsby
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of all sorts over nearly a century, Fitzgerald's story has become a key to American culture and American life itself. Marcus follows the arc of The Great Gatsby from 1925 into the ways it has insinuated itself...
Author
Language
English
Description
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs-the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s-edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus.
"By turns insightful and hilarious, these collected essays by the late, legendary Banks constantly astound."
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An author who has made a career of listening to Bob Dylan collects more than forty years of his essays on the music, performances, books, and movies by and about Bob Dylan, as he assesses the iconic figure's impact on his times.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
New and revised, First revised trade paperback original edition.
Language
English
Description
Re-release of the first book ever published in America about the legendary Motown Record Company, with a new foreword by legendary music journalist Greil Marcus! In January 1959 Berry Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and founded the Detroit-based record company that in less than a decade was to become the largest black-owned business in the United States. It also became one of the most productive and influential producers of popular music anywhere...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York's 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol's...
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