Mystery Train

Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music

Greil Marcus (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2015 | Main
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
9780571323173 (ISBN)

Infos

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 -- Marcus illuminates and interprets the American Dream in rigorous prose, touching on myth, landscape and oral tradition. The result is an invigorating and wholly original study -- here in its revised, sixth edition -- that remains a high watermark in cultural criticism.

Autor

Greil Marcus was born in San Francisco in 1945. He is the author of Mystery Train, Invisible Republic, Lipstick Traces, Double Trouble and Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 and the editor of Lester Bangs's Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. In 1998 he curated the exhibition '1948' at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. He writes the Real Life Rock Top 10 column for The Believer and teaches at the New School in New York. He was described by John Rockwell in the New York Times as 'a writer of rare perception and a genuinely innovative thinker'.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2015
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 153 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 488 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-13: 9780571323173 / 9780571323173
• Zustand: Neuware