Greil Marcus
Punk comics Love & Rockets creator will be at Emerald City Con this weekend
...80s) veteran Glenn Head's huge, beautiful, multi-artist anthology which has been praised by Boing Boing, Greil Marcus, and others. It is one of the few comics collections that unites the...
DiScussion: Choice Paralysis
...there, too". These biographical examples of the joy of concentrated consumption are everywhere: Greil Marcus writing on Robert Johnson in Mystery Train, ("After hearing Johnson's...
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The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night
...an analysis of another group of Canadians carving their way through a predominantly American tradition, Greil Marcus comments on The Band's lyrical style. 'The lyrics are blind baggage,...
Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll (Review)
...the pasts and presents of Little Richard, Macon, rock music and what Greil Marcus refers to as "Old, Weird America". In fact, his tale of his relationship with this music and the world...
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Some Fun Tonight
...examination. More troubling is Kirby's insistence on establishing Little Richard as a denizen of Greil Marcus's "old, weird America," a now ubiquitous term that has run the...
Risk and Equilibrium: The Impact of Greil Marcus (Feature)
...and Lost Voices Few if any American cultural historians take the great deep American Breath like Greil Marcus. It's the breath of Whitman, of Ginsberg, of Little Richard and Dylan...
Best Music Scribing- done for now? (Crazed by the Music)
...great writers (and a couple of pies thrown at some bad ones too). I was also gratified to hear from Greil Marcus, who compiled the latest Da Capo series on music journalism, saying that...
Michael Chabon on the day the music disappeared
...me of one of my all-time favorite quotes, something the critic and author Greil Marcus said one morning in the spring of 2005, when he was promoting his book about Bob Dylan's epic song...
".. the constant repetition of 'There's a choice we're making' conflates with Pepsi's trademarked 'The choice of a new generation' in a way that, on the part of Pepsi-contracted song writers Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, is certainly not intentional, and even more certainly beyond the realm of serendipity." Marcus added, "In the realm of contextualization, 'We Are the World' says less about Ethiopia than it does about Pepsi-and the true result will likely be less that certain Ethiopian individuals will live, or anyway live a bit longer than they otherwise would have, than that Pepsi will get the catch phrase of its advertising campaign sung for free by Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, and all the rest."
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Book Review: A New Literary History of America, edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
"A sinister cabal of superior writers." Book Review: A New Literary History of America, edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors Author: Gordon Hauptfleisch - Published: Jan 15, 2010...
Greil Marcus Stopped by the Frye, and They Made Him Talk
Interview Greil Marcus Stopped by the Frye, and They Made Him Talk Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:40 PM He was here on the occasion of the exhibition The Old, Weird...
The idiosyncratic legacy of Harry Smith
...Singh will be at Book Soup at 7 p.m. to talk about the new book on Smith; it includes essays by Greil Marcus, William Moritz, Paul Arthur and Robert Cantwell. Jim Kweskin, of the Jim...
Creative process? Sure, you figure it out
...range of his film criticism until this book appeared. "A New Literary History of America," edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Harvard University Press, $49.95): It's weirdly...
