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  • Wounded Galaxies 1968

    Geopolitics and Culture Wars

    by Joan Hawkins, Tariq Ali, David Andrews, Rakhee Balaram, Maria Bucur-Deckard, Stephen Buttes, Anna Chichi, Pete Hamill0, Tom Hayden1, Matthew Hubbell2, Seth Kim-Cohen3, Annea Lockwood4, Scott MacDonald5, Greil Marcus6, Timothy S. Murphy7, Kristoffer S. Noheden8, William "bil" Paul9, Marielle Pelissero0, Elijah Pritchett1, Chris Reynolds2, Davis Schneiderman3, Ward Shelley4, Christopher Sieving5, Samuel Smucker6, Laurie Stone7, Katharine Streip8, McKenzie Wark9, Alex Wermer-Colan0, Laurel Westrup1, Eric Zobel2 ...
    Wounded Galaxies 1968 examines the relationship between radical politics, radical aesthetics, radical culture, and the legacy of a watershed year for the world. Like the Surrealists before them, 1968's counterculture believed that changing the world (politics) and changing art (life, culture) were part of the same project.This year saw violent protests and uprisings, including those at the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

    by Greil Marcus ...
    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' ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus

    Writings 1968-2010

    by Greil Marcus ...
    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 the University of Minnesota -- his very first appearance at his alma mater -- on election night 2008. In between are moments of euphoric discovery: ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Rockabilly: The Twang Heard 'Round the World

    The Illustrated History

    by Greil Marcus, Peter Guralnick, Luc Sante, Robert Gordon ...
    The first illustrated history of rockabilly music from the 1950s to the twenty-first century.It was the twang heard 'round the world: Rockabilly was born out of country, bluegrass, jazz, and the blues in the 1950s, becoming rock 'n' roll and ruling the world. Here's the story of Elvis Presley's first Sun records that inspired all. And here's Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Nails It

    by Greil Marcus ...
    Series series Why I Write
    **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 book, the revered cultural critic Greil Marcus explains his compulsion as a yearning for fun, for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Folk Music

    A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

    by Greil Marcus ...
    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"Greil Marcus is already the most important chronicler of Dylan. But here he outdoes himself."—Rachel ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Under the Red White and Blue

    Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby

    by Greil Marcus ...
    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. There's no one better suited to this task than Greil Marcus."—David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Like a Rolling Stone

    Bob Dylan at the Crossroads

    by Greil Marcus ...
    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 a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music -- "simply peerless," in Nick Hornby's words, "not only as a rock writer but as a cultural ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mystery Train, 50th Anniversary Edition

    Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music

    by Greil Marcus ...
    A 50th anniversary edition of the music classic, with fully updated discographies and new introductions from Greil Marcus and Dwight GarnerIn this special 50th anniversary edition of the beloved Plume backlist staple first released in 1975, Mystery Train's complex analysis of the relationship between rock 'n' roll music and America is given new life with updated discographies and new introductions ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Manchurian Candidate

    by Greil Marcus ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    "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 the looking-glass of American politics and the most deeply prophetic film of the second half of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • When That Rough God Goes Riding

    Listening to Van Morrison

    by Greil Marcus ...
    "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 reached the top of the Billboard charts, a first for any Van Morrison recording. The wild swings in the music, mirroring the swings in Morrison's success and in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Old, Weird America

    The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes

    by Greil Marcus ...
    "No previous writer has so transportingly or authoritatively revealed Mr. Dylan against receding vistas of American music and culture." —Robert Polito, The New York Times Book ReviewGreil Marcus's widely acclaimed book is about the secret music (the so-called "Basement Tapes") made by Bob Dylan and the Band while in seclusion in Woodstock, New York, in 1967 a folksy yet funky, furious yet ... Read more

    $14.39 USD