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The Aesthetics of RockISBN 0306802872 (0-306-80287-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aesthetics of Rock'Book summary:This infamous book has enjoyed a lively underground reputation since its first publication in 1970. Richard Meltzer (a.k.a. R. Meltzer) took his training as a young philosopher and applied it with unalloyed enthusiasm to the lyrics, sound, and culture of rock and roll. Never before had anyone noticed the relationship between the philosophy of Heidegger and a tune by Little Anthony and the Imperials, heard the cries of agony in the Shangri Las' “Remember (Walkin' in the Sand) , or transcribed every "papa-ooma-mow-mow" in the Trashmen's “Surfin' Bird. From Dionne Warwick to Plato, Jim Morrison to Bert Brecht, Conway Twitty to Miguel de Unamuno, Meltzer subverts high and low culture in his search for meaning, emotion, and codes in popular music. At once an earnest investigation and a crypto put-on, the book can be read for its nuggets of information and insights or for its humor. Here with Greil Marcus's new introduction, yet another generation of readers can be outraged and inspired.[via]More editions of The Aesthetics of Rock:
Dead Elvis : A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsessionby Greil MarcusISBN 0140149392 (0-14-014939-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternativesby Greil MarcusISBN 0312420412 (0-312-42041-2)
Softcover, Picador USA
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The Dustbin of Historyby Greil MarcusISBN 0330349147 (0-330-34914-7)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Writings on Punk, 1977-1992by Greil MarcusISBN 0140149406 (0-14-014940-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Invisible Republic : Bob Dylan's Basement Tapesby Greil MarcusISBN 033033624X (0-330-33624-X)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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Lipstick Tracesby Greil MarcusISBN 0140231684 (0-14-023168-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Lipstick Traces : A Secret History of the Twentieth Centuryby Greil MarcusISBN 0330351362 (0-330-35136-2)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discsby Phil Freeman, Greil MarcusISBN 0306814854 (0-306-81485-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Musicby Greil MarcusISBN 0140263659 (0-14-026365-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapesby Greil Marcus , Bob DylanISBN 0312420439 (0-312-42043-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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As Mark Sinker observed in The Wire: "Marcus's contention is that there can be found in American folk a community as deep, as electric, as perverse, and as conflicted as all America, and that the songs Dylan recorded out of the public eye, in a basement in Woodstock, are where that community as a whole gets to speak." But the country mapped out in this book, as Bruce Shapiro wrote in The Nation, "is not Woody Guthrie's land for made for you and me . . . It's what Marcus calls 'the old, weird America.'" This odd terrain, this strange yet familiar backdrop to our common cultural history--which Luc Sante (in New York magazine) termed the "playground of God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence men, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of all stripes"--is the territory that Marcus has discovered in Dylan's most mysterious music. And his analysis of that territory "reads like a thriller" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly) and exhibits "a mad, sparkling brilliance" (David Remnick, The New Yorker) throughout. This new edition of The Old, Weird America includes an updated discography.More editions of The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes:
On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: Situationist International 1957-1972by Greil Marcus , Bob DylanISBN 0262231468 (0-262-23146-8)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Pop Art Isby Greil Marcus , Mark Francis, Alison McDonaldISBN 0300138997 (0-300-13899-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voiceby Greil MarcusISBN 0312426429 (0-312-42642-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearA London Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year[via]
In this exhilarating and kaleidoscopic investigation of American identity, Greil Marcus traces the nation's fable of self invention from its earliest Puritan beginnings to its successive retellings in the work of diverse contemporary artists. Marcus considers the birth of America as a New Jerusalem, a place of promises so vast that they could only be betrayed--and how from that betrayal emerged the nation's prophetic voice, the voice that calls America's citizens to self-judgment. Over the course of our history, Marcus finds that the prophetic voice has sounded less and less in the political realm--where it can be heard in the words of John Winthrop, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr.--and more in the work of individual artists, including Philip Roth, David Lynch, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, David Thomas of Pere Ubu, Allen Ginsberg, the band Heavens to Betsy, Bill Pullman, and Sheryl Lee.
In The Shape of Things to Come, the past and the present merge in the most extraordinary and surprising ways. Greil Marcus presents a stirring, and frightening, portrait of our country, our ideals, and ourselves.More editions of The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice:
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Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Islandby Greil Marcus , Robert ChristgauISBN 0306806827 (0-306-80682-7)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island'Book summary:When rock critic Greil Marcus asked 20 other writers on rock what one rock-and-roll album they'd want to take to a desert island, the resulting 20 fervent essays by the likes of Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, and Robert Christgau became this engaging book. It's a brief but intense amusement to imagine spending the rest of your life under a coconut palm listening to The Kinks, The Eagles, Van Morrison or The Ronettes. [via]
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