La dramática y atormentada vida de Jerry Lee Lewis es una de las más legendarias de la historia de la música popular norteamericana. Considerada una de las mejores biografías jamás escritas, este título es un fasc...
El crítico cultural más influyente de todos los tiempos compone el que probablemente sea su ensayo más apasionado e intenso. Rehuyendo la historia oficial la enciclopédica, la del Salón de la Fama del Rock, la de...
Guy Debord, pensador estratégico, aventurero, escritor y cineasta francés, nació en 1931 y se quitó la vida en 1994, cuando estaba a punto de cumplir 63 años, con un disparo en el corazón. En 1958, fundó...
For decades, celebrated author Greil Marcus has applied his unmatched critical apparatus to everything from music, television, radio, and politics to overheard comments, advertisements, and happenstance street encounters--an eclectic collection of what...
Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including Mystery Train and The Shape of Things to Come , traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the...
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 frontiers...
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...
America is a nation making itself up as it goes alongÃa 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...
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: From Marcus's liner notes...
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 constituted...
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-life...