In seinem neuesten Buch entlarvt Marcus drei »gewöhnliche« amerikanische Songs als grundlegende Dokumente amerikanischer Identität: Bascom Lamar Lunsfords »I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground« (1928), Geeshie Wileys »Last Kind Words Blues«...

Was haben Songs von Buddy Holly mit dem Tod der Beatles zu tun? Wie schafft es der Etta-James-Klassiker »All I Could Do Was Cry«, Leben von Beyoncé als Lüge-für-Geld zu entlarven, nur weil sie den Song grandios umsetzt? Und warum ist die...

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. von Marcus, Greil

Greil Marcus's study of American rock and roll is universally acclaimed as the benchmark work of modern rock criticism. Using a handful of artists - a brace of bluesmen, The Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman and Elvis Presley - Marcus...

Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and...

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...

Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic masterpiece as an outsized parable of the American dream and dramatizes its influence on the works of artists ranging from Phillip Roth and...

Greil Marcus begann seine Arbeit an »Lipstick Traces« aus Begeisterung für die Sex Pistols: jener Skandal-Band, die 1975 als radikales Statement erfunden wurde. »Ich bin ein Antichrist!«, schrie Johnny Rotten - wie kam eine solche...

For the past thirty-five years, Greil Marcus has applied his unmatched critical apparatus to music, television, radio, politics, advertisements, and happenstance street encounters. This book is a collection of hundreds of items from the...

This deeply felt telling of the life and times of Bob Dylan focuses on seven of Dylan's most transformative songs. Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus describes how the rich history of American folk songs was invigorated and given new...

Lipstick Traces: Von Dada bis Punk - kulturelle Avantgarden und ihre Wege aus dem 20. Jahrhundert

"The Dustbin Of History" von Greil Marcus ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die sich mit einer Vielzahl von Themen aus der amerikanischen und globalen Geschichte beschäftigen. Marcus nutzt populäre Kultur, Musik, Film und Literatur als...