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Stranded
Rock and Roll for a Desert Island
Häftad, 2007
218 kr
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In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty writers on rock-including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis, and Robert Christgau-a question: What one rock-and-roll album would you take to a desert island? The resulting essays were collected in Stranded , twenty passionate declarations to …
Bob Dylan
Writings 1968-2010
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2011
232 kr
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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: from Marcus' sleeve …
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2006
149 kr
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Sardonic, bitter, threatening, compassionate, gleeful, and most of all loud, 'Like a Rolling Stone' is much more than a song. Six minutes and six seconds in length, it was released by Dylan despite the received wisdom of the day as to what constituted a single. Originally published on the 40th …
History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2015
164 kr
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One of our finest critics gives us an altogether original history of rock ’n’ rollUnlike 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 …
Mystery Train, 50th Anniversary Edition
Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 1900
276 kr
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A 50th anniversary edition of the music classic, with fully updated discographies and new introductions from Greil Marcus and Dwight Garner In this special 50th anniversary edition of the beloved Plume backlist staple first released in 1975, Mystery Train 's complex analysis of the relationship …
What Nails It
Av Greil Marcus
Inbunden, 2024
171 kr
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From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art “Essential for fans of Marcus and fruitful reading for anyone reflecting on the mysteries of art.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Writers write. They can’t help it. They can’t not.” In this spirited …
Listening to Van Morrison
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2012
170 kr
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Listening to Van Morrison represents Greil Marcus's quest to trace Morrison's particular genius through seminal moments in his long career, beginning in 1965, breaking open in 1968 with the incomparable Astral Weeks, and continuing in full force to this day. This is a portrait of a perplexing, …
Mystery Train
Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2025
225 kr
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In 1975, Greil Marcus's Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock 'n' roll and is to this day justly regarded as one of the most accomplished examples of contemporary music writing. Looking at recordings by six key artists-Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly …
Lipstick Traces
A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2009
302 kr
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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 …
Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2001
293 kr
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Love & Theft
Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
579 kr
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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes usefully …
Real Life Rock
The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2016
239 kr
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From the author of The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs comes his “Basement Tapes”: the complete “Real Life Rock Top 10” columnsFor nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called “Real Life Rock Top Ten.” It has been a laboratory where he has fearlessly explored and …
Under the Red White and Blue
Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
Av Greil Marcus
E-bok, 2020
213 kr
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An "astute, challenging, and far-reaching" look (Kirkus Reviews, starred) at how F. Scott Fitzgerald''s vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive"Now more than ever, we need to think long and hard about our collective national fantasies. …
More Real Life Rock
The Wilderness Years, 2014–2021
Av Greil Marcus
Inbunden, 2022
280 kr
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A funny, fierce, and uninhibited musical chronicle of the convulsive recent past from one of our finest cultural critics "A one-of-a-kind guide to rock music’s resonance in every aspect of our lives.”—David Kirby, Wall Street Journal “A smart set of suggestions for further reading, viewing, and …
Folk Music
A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Av Greil Marcus
E-bok, 2022
303 kr
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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 …
Folk Music
A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2023
158 kr
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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 …
What Nails It
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2025
133 kr
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From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art “Essential for fans of Marcus and fruitful reading for anyone reflecting on the mysteries of art.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Writers write. They can’t help it. They can’t not.” In this spirited …
The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2007
294 kr
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The Old, Weird America
The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
285 kr
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Previously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism, this is an updated edition of Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967, which introduced a phrase that has become part of the culture: …
Rose & the Briar
Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad
Häftad, 2005
339 kr
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Praised by Robbie Robertson of The Band as "a classic & a ticket to ride," The Rose & the Briar assembles an astonishing group of writers and artists: Paul Muldoon, Stanley Crouch, R. Crumb, Jon Langford of the Mekons, Sharyn McCrumb, Luc Sante, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Marsh, and more than a dozen …
New Literary History of America
Av Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors
Häftad, 2012
402 kr
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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 …
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations
Av Greil Marcus
Inbunden, 2015
429 kr
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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 …
Dead Elvis
A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 1999
324 kr
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In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows in this remarkable book, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the American public …
Dustbin of History
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 1997
324 kr
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"How much history can be communicated by pressure on a guitar string?" Robert Palmer wondered in Deep Blues. Greil Marcus answers here: more than we will ever know. It is the history in the riff, in the movie or novel or photograph, in the actor's pose or critic's posturing--in short, the history …
In the Fascist Bathroom
Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 1999
418 kr
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Was punk just another moment in music history, a flash in time when a group of young rebels exploded in a fury of raw sound, outrageous styles, and in-your-face attitude? Greil Marcus, author of the renowned Lipstick Traces, delves into the after-life of punk as a much richer phenomenon—a form of …
Stylist
Listening to Bryan Ferry
Av Greil Marcus
Inbunden, 2027
229 kr
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Emerging in the early 70s as lead-singer and co-creative force of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry defined the aesthetics of late 20th century pop music. A tangle of contradictions - born working-class on Wearside into a mining family but destined for a life lived dressed in haute0couture with aristocratic …
Stylist
Listening to Bryan Ferry
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2027
196 kr
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Emerging in the early 70s as lead-singer and co-creative force of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry defined the aesthetics of late 20th century pop music. A tangle of contradictions - born working-class on Wearside into a mining family but destined for a life lived dressed in haute0couture with aristocratic …
Invisible Republic
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2027
202 kr
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Greil Marcus has been called "simply peerless, not only as a rock writer but as a cultural historian" (Nick Hornby). It's appropriate, then, that he should choose to explore one of the most defining moments in American music: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes.It was 1967 - the Summer of Love. Bob Dylan …
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2006
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
255 kr
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When That Rough God Goes Riding
Listening to Van Morrison
Av Greil Marcus
Häftad, 2011
197 kr
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This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces …
