Background
Marcus, Greil Gerstley was born on June 19, 1945 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Gerald Dodd and Eleanore (Hyman) Marcus.
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
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Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession by Greil Marcus (1991-10-19)
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
(This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 197...)
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 music all over the world. The song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of modern society once set out by a small group of Paris intellectuals. In "Lipstick Traces", Greil Marcus' classic book on punk, Dadaism, the situationists, medieval heretics and the Knights of the Round Table (amongst others), the greatest cultural critic of our times unravels the secret history of the twentieth century.
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Twentieth Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
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The Dustbin of History
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Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
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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.
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Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
( In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to ...)
In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows in this remarkable book, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the American public consciousness—and the American subconscious. As he listens in on the public conversation that recreates Elvis after death, Marcus tracks the path of Presley's resurrection. He grafts together scattered fragments of the eclectic dialogue—snatches of movies and music, books and newspapers, photographs, posters, cartoons—and amazes us with not only what America has been saying as it raises its late king, but also what this strange obsession with a dead Elvis can tell us about America itself.
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus (2011-07-07)
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The Dustbin of History by Greil Marcus (1998-08-25)
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus (1990-09-01)
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
(Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed a...)
Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. “I am an antichrist!” shouted singer Johnny Rotten―where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise. This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands―demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life―seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris―based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and ’60s; the rioting students and workers of May ’68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage “Anarchy in the U.K.” and “God Save the Queen.” Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
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Greil Gerstley Marcus
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1967; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1968.
Career
Record editor, Rolling Stone magazine, San Francisco and New York City, 1969-1970; book columnist, Rolling Stone magazine, 1975-1980; book columnist, California Magazine, Los Angeles, 1982-1983, 88-90; pop music columnist, Music Magazine, Tokyo, 1978-1994; pop music columnist, New West magazine, Los Angeles, 1978-1982; pop music columnist, Artforum magazine, New York City, 1983-1987, 90-98; pop music columnist, Village Voice newspaper, New York City, 1986-1990; pop music columnist, Interview Magazine, New York City, since 1992; director, Falter newspaper, Vienna, 1997-1998; cultural columnist, New York Times, 1998; cultural columnist, Esquire magazine, since 1998.
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book
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
(Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed a...)
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Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
( From the author of The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten ...)
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
(This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 197...)
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Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
( In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to ...)
- LESTER BANGS PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG. LITERATURE AS ROCK'N'ROLL, ROCK'N'ROLL AS LITERATURE.
- Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
- Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession by Greil Marcus (1991-10-19)
- Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Twentieth Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
- The Dustbin of History
- Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus (2011-07-07)
- The Dustbin of History by Greil Marcus (1998-08-25)
- Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus (1990-09-01)
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Connections
Married Jenelle Bernstein, June 26, 1966. Children: Emily Rose, Cecily Helen.
