Bob Dylan

Writings 1968-2010

By:

Greil Marcus

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Paperback / softback

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The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of Minnesota on election night in 2008. In between are moments of euphoric discover: from Marcus' sleeve notes for the 1967 Basement Tapes to his exploration of Dylan's reimagining of the American Experience in 1997's Time Out of Mind. And rejection; Marcus's Rolling Stone piece on Dylan's album Self Portrait - often referred to as the most famous record review ever written - began with 'What is this shit?' and led to his departure from the magazine for five years. Marcus follows not only recordings but performances, books, movies, and all manner of highways and byways in which Bob Dylan has made himself felt in our culture. Together, the dozens of pieces collected here comprise a portrait of how, throughout his career, Bob Dylan has drawn upon and reinvented the landscape of American song, its myths and choruses, heroes and villains. They are the result of more than forty years' engagement between an unparalleled artist and a uniquely acute listener.

Author Biography:

Greil Marcus was born in San Francisco in 1945. He is the author of Mystery Train, Invisible Republic, Listening to Van Morrison, Lipstick Traces and Double Trouble, and the editor of Lester Bang's Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. In 1998 he curated the exhibition 1948 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. He was described by John Rockwell in the New York Times as 'a writer of rare perception and a genuinely innovative thinker.' Greil Marcus lives in California.

Release date Australia

May 5th, 2011

Author

Greil Marcus

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Main

Pages

512

Dimensions

153x235x35

ISBN-13

9780571254453

Product ID

10219809

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