Greil Marcus weaves individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The 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.
Greil Marcus weaves individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with ...
This title is Marcus's quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career. In these dislocations Marcus finds the singer on his own artistic quest precisely to reach some extreme musical threshold.
This title is Marcus's quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career. I...
Taking as a starting point the nihilism and anger expressed by punk, Marcus investigates the underground, alternative and revolutionary movements in art, music and other cultural forms.
Taking as a starting point the nihilism and anger expressed by punk, Marcus investigates the underground, alternative and revolutionary movements in a...
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 editors of this volume find a new American history.
In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nation's many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in...
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, unp...
In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the American public consciousness - and the American subconscious.
In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows, Presley's journe...
Greil Marcus' study of American rock and roll is universally acclaimed as the benchmark work of modern rock criticism. Using a handful of artists - a brace of bluesmen, The Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman and Elvis Presley - Marcus illuminates and interprets the American Dream in rigorous prose touching on the myth, landscape and oral tradition of the continent. This comprehensive, revised edition of a milestone achievement in the effort to establish rock and roll as a fit subject for serious cultural criticism, includes a new preface by the author.
Greil Marcus' study of American rock and roll is universally acclaimed as the benchmark work of modern rock criticism. Using a handful of artists - a ...
