The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs / Greil Marcus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcus, Greil, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock music--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2020.

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

One of our finest critics gives us an altogether original history of rock 'n' roll Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then proceeds to dramatize how each embodies rock 'n' roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out-a new language, something new under the sun. "Transmission" by Joy Division. "All I Could Do Was Cry" by Etta James and then Beyoncé. "To Know Him Is to Love Him," first by the Teddy Bears and almost half a century later by Amy Winehouse. In Marcus's hands these and other songs tell the story of the music, which is, at bottom, the story of the desire for freedom in all its unruly and liberating glory. Slipping the constraints of chronology, Marcus braids together past and present, holding up to the light the ways that these striking songs fall through time and circumstance, gaining momentum and meaning, astonishing us by upending our presumptions and prejudices. This book, by a founder of contemporary rock criticism-and its most gifted and incisive practitioner-is destined to become an enduring classic.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Shake Some Action

Transmission

In the Still of the Nite

All I Could Do Was Cry

Crying, Waiting, Hoping

Money (That's What I Want) 1959-1963

This Magic Moment

Guitar Drag

To Know Him Is to Love Him

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes discography, bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

9780300190304

0300190301

OCLC:

889795217