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Marcus, Greil.
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Rock music -- History and criticism.
Rock music -- Discography.
Popular music -- Discography.
Sound recordings -- Reviews.
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Marcus, Greil.
Rock music -- History and criticism.
Rock music -- Discography.
Popular music -- Discography.
Sound recordings -- Reviews.
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The history of rock 'n' roll in ten songs / Greil Marcus.
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Marcus, Greil.
Yale University Press, [2014]
Call #:
781
.6609
M322h
Subjects
Rock music -- History and criticism.
Rock music -- Discography.
Popular music -- Discography.
Sound recordings -- Reviews.
ISBN:
9780300187373 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Rock 'n' roll in ten songs
Description:
307 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Shake some action: 1976 -- Transmission: 2007/1979/2010 -- In the still of the nite: 1956/1959/2010 -- All I could do was cry: 2013/1960/ 2008 -- Crying, waiting, hoping: 2013/1960/2008 -- Money (that's what I want): 1959/1963 and Money changes everything: 1978/1983/2008/2005 -- This magic moment: 2007/1959 -- Guitar drag: 2006/2000 -- To know him is to love him: 1958/2006.
Summary:
"Ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy. "Transmission" by Joy Division. "All I Could Do Was Cry" by Etta James and then Beyoncé. "To Know Him Is to Love Him," first by the Teddy Bears and almost half a century later by Amy Winehouse. In Marcus's hands these and other songs tell the story of the music, which is, at bottom, the story of the desire for freedom in all its unruly and liberating glory. Slipping the constraints of chronology, Marcus braids together past and present, holding up to the light the ways that these striking songs fall through time and circumstance, gaining momentum and meaning, astonishing us by upending our presumptions and prejudices"--Provided by publisher.
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