Hip Americana: The Cultural Criticism of Greil Marcus
| Autor: | Timothy Gray |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | Prospects. 27:611-639 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6399 0361-2333 |
| Popis: | In the summer of 1976, as many in our nation were getting ready to celebrate the bicentennial and listening to AM radio shlock like “Afternoon Delight,” I persuaded my father to buy me an oversized red paperback I had been perusing at the local mall. The book was theRolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, a landmark collaboration edited by Jim Miller. Throughout my teenage years, I would pour over its many photographs, memorize its discography sections, and take instruction and courage from its lively, opinionated writing. Looking back at theIllustrated Historya quarter of a century later, I find that its list of contributors reads like a “Who's Who” of rock criticism. Peter Guralnick, Robert Christgau, Lester Bangs, Robert Palmer, Jon Landau, and Dave Marsh are just a few of the writers who went on to make their names as critics, musicologists, and biographers. On this occasion, they managed to weave the separate strands of rhythm and blues, folk, country, and rock into a cohesive tapestry. |
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