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  • Mystery Train, 50th Anniversary Edition

    Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music

    by Greil Marcus ...
    A 50th anniversary edition of the music classic, with fully updated discographies and new introductions from Greil Marcus and Dwight GarnerIn this special 50th anniversary edition of the beloved Plume backlist staple first released in 1975, Mystery Train's complex analysis of the relationship between rock 'n' roll music and America is given new life with updated discographies and new introductions ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Lipstick Traces

    A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

    by Greil Marcus ...
    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 in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. “I am an antichrist!” shouted singer Johnny Rotten—where ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD

  • The Old, Weird America

    The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes

    by Greil Marcus ...
    "No previous writer has so transportingly or authoritatively revealed Mr. Dylan against receding vistas of American music and culture." —Robert Polito, The New York Times Book ReviewGreil Marcus's widely acclaimed book is about the secret music (the so-called "Basement Tapes") made by Bob Dylan and the Band while in seclusion in Woodstock, New York, in 1967 a folksy yet funky, furious yet ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Folk Music

    A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

    by Greil Marcus ...
    Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs"Marcus delivers yet another essential work of music journalism."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Further elevates Marcus to what he has always been: a supreme artist-critic."—Hilton Als"Greil Marcus is already the most important chronicler of Dylan. But here he outdoes himself."—Rachel ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Like a Rolling Stone

    Bob Dylan at the Crossroads

    by Greil 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 enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music -- "simply peerless," in Nick Hornby's words, "not only as a rock writer but as a cultural ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Stylist

    Listening to Bryan Ferry

    by Greil Marcus ...
    Bryan Ferry, Greil Marcus, hands across the water—one singer, one critic, a music comes to new life.What is a song? Is it a fact, or is it a question? Over more than fifty years in a story that is still going on, for Bryan Ferry, either with Roxy Music or as a solo artist, any song is an open question, something he interrogates as surely as it interrogates him. Who are you? Ferry asks Bob Dylan’s ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Double Trouble

    Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in the Land of No Alternatives

    by Greil Marcus ...
    From the critic who knows music and culture like no other, a fascinating look at two outsiders who epitomize America's fractured self-imageIn 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 most imaginative and insightful critics, was the first ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Shape of Things to Come

    Prophecy and the American Voice

    by Greil Marcus ...
    From 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 certainty in the American air." It is this story of self ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Doors

    A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years

    by Greil Marcus ...
    A 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, one could drive from here to there, changing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

    by Greil Marcus ...
    The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train "ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Unlike previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock 'n' ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Nails It

    by Greil Marcus ...
    Series series Why I Write
    **From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art“Essential for fans of Marcus and fruitful reading for anyone reflecting on the mysteries of art.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)**“Writers write. They can’t help it. They can’t not.” In this spirited book, the revered cultural critic Greil Marcus explains his compulsion as a yearning for fun, for ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Real Life Rock

    The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014

    by Greil Marcus ...
    For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called “Real Life Rock Top Ten.” It has been a laboratory where he has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements. Taken together, his musings, reflections, and sallies amount to a subtle and implicit theory of how cultural objects fall ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD