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The history of rock 'n' roll in ten songs
Selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy.
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The history of rock 'n' roll in ten songs
The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train \"ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll\" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Unlike previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock 'n' roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out—a new language, something new under the sun.
\"Transmission\" by Joy Division. \"All I Could Do Was Cry\" by Etta James and then Beyoncé. \"To Know Him Is to Love Him,\" first by the Teddy Bears and almost half a century later by Amy Winehouse. In Marcus's hands these and other songs tell the story of the music, which is, at bottom, the story of the desire for freedom in all its unruly and liberating glory. Slipping the constraints of chronology, Marcus braids together past and present, holding up to the light the ways that these striking songs fall through time and circumstance, gaining momentum and meaning, astonishing us by upending our presumptions and prejudices. This book, by a founder of contemporary rock criticism—and its most gifted and incisive practitioner—is destined to become an enduring classic.
\"One of the epic figures in rock writing.\"— The New York Times Book Review
\"Marcus is our greatest cultural critic, not only because of what he says but also, as with rock-and-roll itself, how he says it.\"— The Washington Post
Winner of the Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award in Music Criticism, given by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
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The Doors : a lifetime of listening to five mean years
The Doors: a lasting voice, or psychedelic trash? To Greil Marcus they can be both-- in the same song. More Doors songs can be heard on the radio today, forty years after Jim Morrison's death, than those of almost any group of their era. Sparked by that fact, and with the deep focus of a critic engaged with his subject, Marcus both revisits a parade of great performances and explores why and how the Doors have endured with their spirit and menace intact. --From publisher description.
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A Trip to Hibbing High School
Empathy has always been the genie of his work, the tones of his voice, his sense of rhythm, his feel for how to fill up a line or leave it half empty, his sense of when to ride a melody and when to bury it, so that it might dissolve all of a listener's defenses - and this is what allowed Dylan, in 1962 at the Gaslight Café in Greenwich Village, at home in that secret community of tradition and mystery, to become not only the pining lover in the old ballad \"Handsome Molly,\" but also Handsome Molly herself. On the way to Hibbing, we stopped at an antique store ; shoved in among a shelf of children's books was a small, cracked volume called From Lincoln to Coolidge, published in 1924, a collection of news dispatches, excerpts from Congressional hearings, and speeches, among them the speech Woodrow Wilson gave to dedicate Abraham Lincoln's birthplace in Hodgenville, Kentucky, in 1916.
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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, often hidden affinities between the music and broader streams of American politics and culture. Drawn from Marcus℗¿s 2013 Massey Lectures at Harvard, his new work delves into three episodes in the history of American commonplace song: Bascom Lamar Lunsford℗¿s 1928 ℗¿I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground,℗¿ Geeshie Wiley℗¿s 1930 ℗¿Last Kind Words Blues,℗¿ and Bob Dylan℗¿s 1964 ℗¿Ballad of Hollis Brown.℗¿ How each of these songs manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by no one illuminates different aspects of the commonplace song tradition. Some songs truly did come together over time without an identifiable author. Others draw melodies and motifs from obscure sources but, in the hands of a particular artist, take a final, indelible shape. And, as in the case of Dylan℗¿s ℗¿Hollis Brown,℗¿ there are songs that were written by a single author but that communicate as anonymous productions, as if they were folk songs passed down over many generations.
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Escuchando a The Doors
Durante toda su vida, Greil Marcus, uno de los mejores pensadores vivos de la cultura popular, ha escuchado a The Doors, la banda liderada por el carismático y oscuro Jim Morrison, que, en tan solo cinco años (1967-1971), grabó algunas de las mejores canciones de la historia del rock. Con su estilo radical e inconfundible, Marcus trasciende la atenta escucha de las canciones de la banda —no solo las versiones de sus temas más conocidos, sino también las que interpretaron en directo, donde la banda solía reinventar su propio repertorio— y proyecta una de las miradas más inteligentes y brillantes sobre el legado cultural de la década de los 60. Además de los momentos decisivos de la historia de la banda, Greil Marcus convoca algunas manifestaciones artísticas clave y personalidades del imaginario colectivo norteamericano en un relato torrencial que, ante todo, rehúye el tópico de los 60 como la década de la paz, el amor fraternal y la liberación, detectando sus agujeros negros e instantes decisivos que la música de The Doors reveló mejor que nadie. ESCUCHANDO A THE DOORS es también una lección magistral de crítica de cultura popular y de cómo la literatura y el pensamiento pueden abordar la divulgación musical. Para ello, Marcus da rienda suelta a una prosa exuberante cuya finalidad no es reverenciar una música del pasado como objeto congelado en su tiempo, sino todo lo contrario: mostrar cómo algunas canciones y las ideas que estas vehiculan siguen vigentes y que, por ello, es preciso que las sigamos reivindicando y escuchando.
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