Real Life Rock : The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014 / Greil Marcus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcus, Greil, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marcus, Greil.

Rock music--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.

Newspapers.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (599 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns 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 through time and circumstance and often deliver unintended consequences, both in the present and in the future. Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispensable volume packed with startling arguments and casual brilliance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

The Village Voice, 1986-1990

Artforum, 1990-1998

Salon, 1999-2003

City Pages, 2003-2004

Interview, 2006-2007

The Believer, 2008-2014

Ac know ledg ments

Credits

Index of Names and Titles

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21859-1

OCLC:

922581291