The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years - Rilegato

Marcus, Greil

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ISBN 10: 1586489453 ISBN 13: 9781586489458

Casa editrice: Public Affairs, 2011

Riassunto

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 from one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three, four Doors songs in an hourevery hour. Whatever the demands in the music, they remained unsatisfied, in the largest sense unfinished, and absolutely alive. There have been many books on the Doors. This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the death cult of both Jim Morrison and the era he was made to personify, and focus solely on the music. It is a story untold; all these years later, it is a new story.

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Recensione:

B&N Review, November 16, 2011
“The Doors is a reflection on the Doors' music in time and over time -- and it is a book about the band like no other.”

VanityFair.com“Just My Type” 12/11:  “Greil Marcus, music critic, cultural historian, infinite riffer and groover, has a gift for sweeping readers up in his passions.... Reading the book gives the experience of being in the studio with the band: the world outside still exists, but we’re safe in the booth—no background noise, or groupies, or memories of Mother. Just us, the music, and Marcus. It’s a pleasure.” Washington Post“Prosey, frequently brilliant.... Marcus has the ability to play tour guide in the places we think we already know. It’s exactly what makes him one of the greatest music scribes to ever do the job, and it’s what makes this book worth reading, love or hate the Doors.”

Financial Times

San Antonio Express-News, August 28, 2011
“With an astounding breadth of knowledge, Marcus unmasks The Doors in his latest missive from the cultural trenches.”

Publishers Weekly, September 5, 2011"Music critic Marcus offers a relentlessly beautiful and insightful evaluation of the music of the Doors ... but also a complete rethinking of the Doors’ work as an entire story that captures the 1960s as 'a place, even as it is created, people know they can never really inhabit, and never escape'.... He contrasts a fascinating range of official and bootleg live recordings of such hit singles as “Touch Me” to show that by 1970 'a war between the band and its audience was underway, a war whose weapon were contempt on both sides.' This is an impressive tribute." 

L'autore:

Greil Marcus is the author of Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, When that Rough God Goes Riding,The Shape of Things to Come, Mystery Train, Dead Elvis, In the Fascist Bathroom,Double Trouble, Like a Rolling Stone, and The Old Weird America; a twentieth anniversary edition of his bookLipstick Traces was published in 2009. With Werner Sollors he is the editor ofA New Literary History of America, published last year by Harvard University Press. Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column Real Life Rock Top 10” appears regularly in The Believer. He has lectured at U Cal, Berkeley, The Whitney Museum of Art, and Princeton University. He lives in Berkeley.

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• Editore: Public Affairs
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1586489453
• ISBN 13: 9781586489458
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 210