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Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
A collection of interviews with one of America’s most influential authors, music journalists, and cultural critics. In this book, the author has explored the connections among figures, sounds, and events…
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Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus delves into three distinct episodes in the history of American commonplace song and shows how each one manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by…
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Listening in on public conversation that recreates Elvis after death, Marcus tracks Presley’s resurrection. He grafts together snatches of film, music, books, newspapers, photos, posters, and cartoons, and amazes us…
More than 20 years after its initial publication, Mystery Train remains one of the smartest, most provocative books ever written about rock-and-roll.
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From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art
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Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs
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Lester Bangs
The essential writings of the greatest music writer of the twentieth, or any, century, reissued as a Serpent’s Tail Classic.
[W]hen [Marcus] takes on Bob Dylan, who inspired him to become a writer, he is at his most alive… Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 shows him in a…
His foremost interpreter revisits more than forty years of listening to Dylan - weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times.
For the fortieth anniversary of the recording of Like a Rolling Stone, the definitive biography of the song that caught the questing spirit of its time and overnight changed the…
A celebration of the most sublime musical moments in the career of a loved and revered artist.
More than forty years since singer Jim Morrison was found dead and the Doors disbanded, their music lives on. There have been many books on the Doors; this is the…
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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…
Was punk just another moment in music history? Marcus delves into the after-life of punk as a richer phenomenon-a form of artistic and social rebellion that continually erupts into popular…
This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called ‘Anarchy in the UK’ was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop…
In 1978, the author asked twenty writers on rock a question: Which one rock and roll album would you take to a desert island? This work collects those resulting essays…
One of our finest critics gives us an altogether original history of rock ‘n’ roll
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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 columns
A funny, fierce, and uninhibited musical chronicle of the convulsive past six years, from one of our finest cultural critics
A deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive
This is a secret history of modern times, told by way of what conventional history tries to exclude. Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century…
This book traces the history of rock ‘n’ roll through six key, fundamental artists: Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley –
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…
Contributor Greil Marcus
In his latest book, Greil Marcus, arguably the most influential music critic of all time, offers his most impassioned and intense essay yet. Steering clear of official history–encyclopedia entries, Rock…
Since it was first published in 1975, Mystery Train has cemented itself in the canon of great rock literature, offering one of the most astute, fascinating visions of the genre…
Drawing on pieces published from 1992 to 2000, a noted music and culture critic draws comparison between Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley as two outsiders who embody the American struggle…
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…
Greil Marcus (Writer and cultural critic, USA)
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Michael Goldberg
Addicted to Noise collects the best interviews, profiles, and essays Michael Goldberg has written during his forty-plus years as a journalist.
Peter Benjaminson
Now rereleased with a new Foreword by legendary music journalist Marcus–Benjaminson’s chronicle of the rise and fall of the Motown Record Company, one of the most important cultural touchstones in…
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…
Stanley Booth
The classic masterpiece of rock ‘n’ roll writing: the history of the Rolling Stones and the 1960s, capturing the zeitgeist of this heady, hedonistic time.
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Rourke’s pioneering study of the national character examines such legendary figures as the Yankee, the backwoodsman, the minstrel singer, and the stroller to show how the popular comic imagination has…
In January 1959 Berry Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and founded the Detroit-based record company that in less than a decade was to become the largest black-owned business in…
Peter Handke
2019 Nobel Literature Laureate Peter Handke’s novel Short Letter, Long Farewell Korean edition. This reprint of Handke’s 1972 novel is a combination of an adult coming of age book and…
Laura Grace Ford
The acclaimed art fanzine’s psychogeographic drifts through a ruined city
A graphic adaptation by Lana Lesley of the stage adaptation by Rude Mechs of the book by Greil Marcus.
Walter Benjamin
Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture, composed of 60 short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and…
A long overdue, comprehensive look at Jay DeFeo’s career as an avant-garde artist
Eric Lott (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Virginia),Greil Marcus
This new edition of Eric Lott’s classic cultural history features a new foreword by Greil Marcus and afterword by the author.
Austen Barron Bailly
This generously illustrated book explores the connections between Thomas Hart Benton’s art and Hollywood movies from groundbreaking perspectives.
William Eggleston
For Now is the result of film-maker Michael Almereyda’s year-long rummage through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of…
