Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock'n'Roll Music - Brossura

Marcus, Greil

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ISBN 10: 0452289181 ISBN 13: 9780452289185

Casa editrice: Plume, 2008

Riassunto

Updated with a revised discography, a new edition of the classic study of rock music traces the evolution of the genre as exemplified in the careers of six key artists--Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley--and examines its influence on American pop culture. Original.

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Praise for Mystery Train:

"Mystery Train changed a lot of things for me. Most basically, it plugged me into a lifetime’s worth of listening. Because of it, I erased 'English lit' as my college major and inked in 'American lit.' It remains the book I can’t help measuring critical writing against...I plan to give a copy of Mr. Marcus’s book to each of my children when they leave for college. It speaks intimately to a part of the cultural heritage that, in my haphazard way, I’ve tried to give them."–Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"Gets as close to the heart and soul of America and American music as the best of rock 'n' roll." –Bruce Springsteen
 
“Perhaps the finest book ever written about pop music.” –Alan Light, The New York Times Book Review, 2005
 
“Greil Marcus developed an ability to discern an art movement, or an entire country, lurking inside a song.” –The New Yorker, 2004
 
“Probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson.” –D.D. Guttenplan, London Review of Books, 2007
 
“The 1975 appearance of Greil Marcus’ first book, Mystery Train, was an explosion as unexpected and indelible as the first records Elvis Presley had cut almost exactly twenty years before.” –Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times’ Book Review, 2006

L'autore:

Greil Marcus was one of the original staffers at Rolling Stone. He teaches at the New School in New York and lives in California.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Plume
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0452289181
• ISBN 13: 9780452289185
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 409