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Author:Greil Marcus
A New Literary History of America
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...- $30.00
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Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010
Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's life in music is revisited by his foremost interpreter -- weaving 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...- $21.99
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Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
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...- $31.00
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Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives
In June of 1992, when all the polls showed that Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall show, put on dark glasses, and blew Heartbreak Hotel. Greil Marcus, one of America's most imaginative and insightful popular culture...- $23.00
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Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Author: Greil MarcusISBN-10: 0300274106ISBN-13: 9780300274103Publisher: Yale University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2023Pages: 288Format: Paperback- $18.00
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
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...- $40.00
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Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began...- $16.99
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
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...- $33.50
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More Real Life Rock: The Wilderness Years, 2014-2021
A funny, fierce, and uninhibited musical chronicle of the convulsive past six years 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...- $28.00
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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition
The perfect gift for music fans and anyone who loves artists like Elvis Presley, Randy Newman, Sly Stone, Robert Johnson, and Harmonica Frank. In 1975, Greil Marcus's Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock 'n' roll and continues to be sought out...- $18.00
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Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
From the author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs comes his "Basement Tapes" the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called "Real Life Rock Top Ten." It has...- $24.00
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Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad
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...- $26.95
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Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island
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 such...- $17.99
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The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it...- $13.99
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The Dustbin of History
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...- $31.00
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
One of our finest critics gives us an altogether original history of rock 'n' roll 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...- $17.00
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The Manchurian Candidate
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...- $15.95
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
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...- $21.00
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Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations
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,...- $41.00
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Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
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 "I found great pleasure in . . . Under the Red White and Blue . ....- $16.00
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When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison
Van Morrison, says Greil Marcus, remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was rereleased as a live album in 2009 it...- $15.99
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