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Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus
PublicAffairs 2010; US$ 17.99His foremost interpreter revisits more than forty years of listening to Dylan?weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times more...
The Old, Weird America
Picador 2011; US$ 17.99A Special Edition with a New Introduction and an Updated Discography This is Greil Marcus?s acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967, which introduced a phrase that has become part of the culture: ?the old, weird America.? It is this country that the book maps?the ?playground of God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans,... more...
When That Rough God Goes Riding
PublicAffairs 2011; US$ 13.99This 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, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces between words that become musical events in themselves.... more...
Listening to Van Morrison
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 13.11A celebratory, and revelatory exploration of the artist in his most sublime moments by one of the most revered cultural commentators of these times. more...
The Doors
PublicAffairs 2011; US$ 21.99A fan from the moment the Doors? first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after the singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded,... more...
The Shape of Things to Come
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 18.99From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces , an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity "America is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, lynch mobs and escapes; its greatest testaments are made of portents and warnings, biblical allusions that lose all... more...
The Doors
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 18.94A 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 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after the singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded, Greil Marcus muses on how one could drive from here to there,... more...
Double Trouble
Henry Holt and Co. 2001; US$ 17.99From the critic who knows music and culture like no other, a fascinating look at two outsiders who epitomize America's fractured self-image In June of 1992, when all polls showed Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall Show , put on dark glasses, and blew "Heartbreak Hotel." Greil Marcus, one of America's... more...
The Doors
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 13.99A fan from the moment the Doors? first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after the singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded,... more...









