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A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
34.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
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 edit ...Show more
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film & Music
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 . . ...Show more
Folk Music - A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
41.95 AUD
Category: Film & Music
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 Als Ac ...Show more
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film & Music
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 sparked the ...Show more
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
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Category: Culture & Ideas
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 sparked t ...Show more
More Real Life Rock - The Wilderness Years, 2014-2021 by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film & Music
A funny, fierce, and uninhibited musical chronicle of the convulsive past six years from one of our finest cultural critics "A smart set of suggestions for further reading, viewing, and listening by a most trustworthy guide."--Kirkus Reviews "This new collection of Marcus' long-running column co ...Show more
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film & Music
In 1975, Greil Marcus's Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock 'n' roll and continues to be sought out today by music fans and anyone interested in pop culture. Looking at recordings by six key artists--Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Pres ...Show more
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin; Michael W. Jennings; Edmund Jephcott; Greil Marcus
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: very good
One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature--by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offe ...Show more
Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014 by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film & Music
For 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 wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements. Taken together, his musings, ...Show more
Real Life Rock - The Complete Top Ten Columns 1986-2014 by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film & Music
The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as "our greatest cultural critic." Writing in the London Review of Books, D. D. Guttenplan calls him "probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson." For nearly thirty years, he has written a remarkable column that has migrated fro ...Show more
The Doors by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film & Music
The author saw the Doors band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. This title tells the story of the band. A fan from the moment the Doors' first album arrived, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in ...Show more
The Manchurian Candidate by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film & Music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
"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 fall through ...Show more