Conversations with Greil Marcus / edited by Joe Bonomo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcus, Greil

Contributor:

Bonomo, Joe, 1966-

Series:

Literary conversations series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marcus, Greil--Interviews.

Marcus, Greil.

Music journalists--United States--Interviews.

Music journalists.

Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.

Authors, American.

United States.

Rock music--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xx, 217 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

Summary:

Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, "There is and infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate." For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections amount figures, sounds, and events in culture, relating unrelated points of departure, mapping alternate histories and surprising correspondences. He is a unique and influential voice in American letters.

Marcus was born in 1945 in San Francisco. In 1969 he published his first piece, a review of Magic Bus: The Who on Tour, in Rolling Strong, where he became the magazine's first records editor. Renowned for his ongoing "Real Life Top Ten" column, Marcus has been a writer for a number of magazines and websites, and is the author and editor of over fifteen books. His critique is egalitarian: no figure, object, or event is too high, low, celebrated, or obscure for an inquiry into the ways in which our lives can open outward, often unexpectedly.

In Conversations with Greil Marcus, Marcus discusses in lively, wide ranging interviews his books and columns as well as his critical methodology and broad approach to his material, signaled by a generosity of spirit leavened with aggressive critical standards. Book jacket.

Contents:

A critic on his muse / John King, 1981

An interview with Greil Marcus / Mark Kitchell, 1984

Making too much of a song : an interview with Greil Marcus / Tony Fafoglia

Interview / Brent Brambury

Now we are engaged in a dultural civil war / Heidi Benson, 1990

Dead Elvis, or long live the King / Geoff Pevere, 1993

Greil Marcus / Nick Pemberton, 1994

Greil Marcus : do politics rock? / Jason Gross, 1997

All these inches away where Greil Marcus began / Dave Weich, 2001

Online exchange with Greil Marcus / RockCritics.com, 2002

Greil Marcus : interview / Oliver Hall, 2005

Interview with Greil Marcus and Oyvind Bagnes, 2010

20 questions : Greil Marcus / Karen Zarker, 2010.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781617036224

1617036226

9781617036231

1617036234

OCLC:

776874585