Originally published in 1996, an exploration of the cultural events that have defined the twentieth century, which challenges the world to take a different view of its history, with discussion of themes drawn from music, books and film.
Originally published in 1996, an exploration of the cultural events that have defined the twentieth century, which challenges the world to take a diff...
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 emergence of the culture called punk. "I am an antichrist " shouted singer Johnny Rotten--where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of...
Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on th...
