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A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
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Category: Fiction
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
Folk Music - A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
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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
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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
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film Theatre
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 Pres ...Show more
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin; Michael W. Jennings; Edmund Jephcott; Greil Marcus
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature--by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offe ...Show more
Real Life Rock - The Complete Top Ten Columns 1986-2014 by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film Theatre
The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as "our greatest cultural critic." Writing in the London Review of Books, D. D. Guttenplan calls him "probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson." For nearly thirty years, he has written a remarkable column that has migrated fro ...Show more
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film Theatre
One of our finest critics gives us an altogether original history of rock n roll"
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film Theatre
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 embo ...Show more
The Manchurian Candidate by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
"It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood," film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into an assassin. Sophisticated to be sure, it's also a headlong fall through ...Show more
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations by Greil Marcus
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Category: Music | Series: William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Ci
Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including "Mystery Train "and "The Shape of Things to Come, " traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the surprising, often hidden affinities between t ...Show more
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