Durante toda su vida, Greil Marcus, uno de los mejores pensadores vivos de la cultura popular, ha escuchado a The Doors, la banda liderada por el carismático y oscuro Jim Morrison, que, en tan solo cinco...

Una visión amplia, interdisciplinaria y divertida de la lectura, a cargo del autor del exitosísimo La cocina de la escritura. Rastros de carmín es un libro apasionante acerca de movimientos culturales...

Quel touriste étranger n'associe pas La Vie en rose à la France, qui ne s'est pas imaginé à Rome en écoutant Ti amo ou en Espagne avec La Macarena ? Ces mélodies populaires sont tellement ancrées dans...

Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique....

His foremost interpreter revisits more than forty years of listening to Dylan - weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in...

A cult classic in a new edition. This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop...

Greil Marcus's study of American rock and roll is universally acclaimed as the benchmark work of modern rock criticism. Using a handful of artists - a brace of bluesmen, The Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman...

'Van Morrison,' says Greil Marcus, 'remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.' When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was...

A fan from the moment the Doors' first album arrived, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty...

Un fantasma si aggira per il xx secolo: ha i capelli rossi e sparatidi Johnny Rotten, il monocolo di Tristan Tzara e lo sguardo visionario di Guy Debord. Chiamatelo Cabaret Voltaire. Chiamatelo potlatch....

Il rock ’n’ roll è abbandono senza freni – lo ha detto Neil Young –, un abbandono che è nel volto schivo, negli assoli aspri e nel canto strozzato di Buddy Holly o negli occhi velati di Ian Curtis, mentre...

Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's life in music is revisited by his foremost interpreter -- weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley...

"Van Morrison," says Greil Marcus, "remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music." When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was...

Best Music Writing has faithfully collected the year's most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so it's appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music...

A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and...

Au lendemain du 11 septembre 2001, le New York Times titrait sa une : « Les États-Unis attaqués ». Il avait compris combien, plus qu’ailleurs, l’Amérique pouvait être mise en péril à travers ses symboles....

Qual a importância de uma nova biografia sobre um dos artistas mais conhecidos e icônicos das últimas décadas? Como ir além dos lugares-comuns e de tudo o que já se sabe sobre o músico que venceu inúmeros...