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Lipstick Traces : A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
A cult classic in a new edition. 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 music all over the world. The song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of modern society once ...Show more
Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus
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Category: Music
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 to this day. This is a portrait of a perplexing, mys ...Show more
Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus
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Category: Music
Represents the author's quest to trace Van Morrison's particular genius through seminal moments in his long career, beginning in 1965, breaking open in 1968 with the incomparable "Astral Weeks". This title presents a portrait of a perplexing, mysterious and terrifyingly gifted artist and vocalist at the ...Show more
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
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Category: 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
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
$55.00 AUD
Category: 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
Stranded by Greil Marcus
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Category: Music
This is a new edition of this classic of rock journalism that first asked the question: Which one album would you bring to a desert island and why?
The Doors by Greil Marcus
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Category: 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 History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
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Category: Music
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 embo ...Show more
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
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Category: Music
One of our finest critics gives us an altogether original history of rock n roll"
The Shape of Things to Come : Prophecy and the American Voice by Greil Marcus
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In "The Shape of Things to Come", Greil Marcus untangles the story of America's covenant with itself - the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives. In a thrilling account that moves back and forth between culture and politics, and with deep dives into the work of a f ...Show more