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Real Life Rock

The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
By Greil Marcus
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Real Life Rock collects nearly thirty years of Greil Marcus's incisive "Real Life Rock Top Ten" columns. This volume offers an eclectic examination of cultural artefacts, ranging from songs and books to films and adverts. Through his witty and fearless critiques, Marcus develops a subtle theory about how cultural objects endure and influence both present and future contexts.
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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300223606

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 January 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 2 b-w illus.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Height: 225.0mm

Weight: 816g

Pages: 600

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Greil Marcus Music & Musicians Non-Fiction

About the Author

Greil Marcus's books include Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ’n’ Roll Music, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, and The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs. He teaches at Berkeley and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

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