The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
Marcus Greil
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, and then proceeds to dramatize how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts outa 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 criticismand its most gifted and incisive practitioner,is destined to become an enduring classic.
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 criticismand its most gifted and incisive practitioner,is destined to become an enduring classic.
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
সাল:
2014
প্রকাশক:
Yale University Press
ভাষা:
english
পৃষ্ঠা:
320
ISBN 10:
0300187378
ISBN 13:
9780300187373
ফাইল:
EPUB, 234 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2014