Stranded
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...
When That Rough God Goes Riding
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 continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, s...
Mystery Train
Greil Marcus's study of American rock 'n' roll is justly regarded as one of the most accomplished examples of contemporary music writing. Using a handful of artists -- a brace of bluesmen, The Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman and Elvis Presley -- Mar...
Listening to Van Morrison
Listening to Van Morrison represents Greil Marcus's quest to trace Morrison's particular genius through seminal moments in his long career, beginning in 1965, breaking open in 1968 with the incomparable Astral Weeks, and continuing in full force t...
The Old, Weird America
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,...
Lipstick Traces
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 Lo...
In the Fascist Bathroom
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-...
Like a Rolling Stone
Sardonic, bitter, threatening, compassionate, gleeful, and most of all loud, 'Like a Rolling Stone' is much more than a song. Six minutes and six seconds in length, it was released by Dylan despite the received wisdom of the day as to what constit...
Real Life Rock
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 ...
Folk 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 mus...
History Of Rock N Roll In Ten Songs
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 a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then proceeds to dramatize 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.
Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus
Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's life in music is revisted by his foremost interpreter,weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing timesThe book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at...
Dead Elvis
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 frontier...
Bob Dylan
Greil Marcus weaves 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 on election night 2008. In between are mom...
The Rose and the Briar
A devastatingly original work that plunges into the emotional heart of the American psyche.
Love & Theft
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflict...
The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate
The Dustbin of History
The Dustbin of History
A New Literary History of America
A New Literary History of America
Mystery Train
In 1975, Greil Marcus's Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock 'n' roll and is to this day justly regarded as one of the most accomplished examples of contemporary music writing. Looking at recordings by six key artists-Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley-Marcus offers a complex and unprecedented analysis of the relationship between rock 'n' roll and American culture. This fiftieth-anniversary edition features new introductions by both the author and the New York Times' critic and editor Dwight Garner, alongside completely rewritten discographies. The result is an invigorating and wholly original study that remains a high watermark in cultural criticism.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real t...
Bare Bodies – Thresholding Life
Körper – Kunst – Performance – Philosophie Diese Anthologie ist dem Themenkomplex Körper gewidmet – Körper, an den Übergängen, Schwellen und Rändern des Lebens, werden in ihrer künstlerischen, politischen und existenziellen Dimension diskutiert. In einer künstlerisch-philosophischen Betrachtung der Überschneidung von Performance Practices und Life Practices geht es um Prozesse des Entstehens, Überlebens und Vergehens, um den Blüten der Bio- und Nekropolitik nachzuspüren. Das Buch nimmt performative (Lebens-)Zyklen und ihre zeitliche Dimension in den Blick, betont mit „Thresholding' den Moment des Verweilens an einer Schwelle oder einem Übergang und spinnt ein relationales Textgeflecht: Mariella Greil versammelt Beiträge aus den Bereichen Performance, Aktivismus, Psychoanalyse und zeitgenössischer Tanz. Inhalt und Form gehen eine besondere Verbindung ein. * Anknüpfend an die Publikation Being in Contact: Encountering a Bare Body (2 2 ) * Ein vielschichtiges Buchobjekt mit transparentem
Properties of Solvents
The Properties of Solvents Yizhak Marcus Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel The Properties of Solvents contains extensively annotated tables of physical, chemical and related properties for over 250 solvents. Factual knowledge of solvent effec...
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it through the pain. The problem with advice in general is that we often don't take it. The great thing...
The Japanese Employment System
The stagnation of the Japanese economy and the ageing of Japanese society has led to major changes in the labour market in Japan. This comprehensive study looks at how the Japanese employment system is adapting to its new economic environment. Usi...
Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia
In the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations detected a decline in the political significance of the armed forces across Southeast Asia. A decade later, however, this trend seems to have been reversed. The Thai military launch...
Introduction to Islamic Archaeology
This book offers an introduction to the archaeology of the Islamic world. It traces the history of the discipline from its earliest manifestations through to the present and evaluates the contribution made by archaeology to the understanding of ke...
Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice
Updated to include recent results from intensive worldwide research efforts in materials science, surface science, and corrosion science, Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice, Third Edition explores the latest advances in corrosion and prot...
Eyewitness and Crusade Narrative
The idea of what an "eyewitness" account is here scrutinised through examination of key Crusading texts. Eyewitness is a familiar label that historians apply to numerous pieces of evidence. It carries compelling connotations of trustwort...
The Tenth Muse
The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing toget...
Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice
Updated to include recent results from intensive worldwide research efforts in materials science, surface science, and corrosion science, Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice, Third Edition explores the latest advances in corrosion and prot...
Different Every Time
Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with Jimi Hendrix. He brought a Bohemian and jazz outlook to the 60s rock scene, having honed his drummi...
I Am
Bold claims. Answers which many are searching for today. This is Jesus in his own words, using metaphors and pictures which are concrete, simple and profound. Meaning: what is the meaning of life? I am the bread of life. Enlightenment: where can I...
Black Milk
Black Milk is the first in-depth analysis of the visual archives that effloresced around slavery in Brazil and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In its latter stages the book also explores the ways in which the museum cultu...
