Conversations with Greil Marcus

Joe Bonomo

ISBN 10: 1617036226 / ISBN 13: 9781617036224

Published by MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi, 2012

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Synopsis:

Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, “There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate.” For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among figures, sounds, and events in culture, relating unrelated points of departure, mapping alternate histories and surprising correspondences. He is a unique and influential voice in American letters.

Marcus was born in 1945 in San Francisco. In 1968 he published his first piece, a review of Magic Bus: The Who on Tour, in Rolling Stone, where he became the magazine’s first records editor. Renowned for his ongoing “Real Life Top Ten” column, Marcus has been a writer for a number of magazines and websites and is the author or editor of over fifteen books. His critique is egalitarian: no figure, object, or event is too high, low, celebrated, or obscure for an inquiry into the ways in which our lives can open outward, often unexpectedly.

In Conversations with Greil Marcus, Marcus discuses in lively, wide-ranging interviews his books and columns as well as his critical methodology and broad approach to his material, signaled by a generosity of spirit leavened with aggressive critical standards.

About the Author: Joe Bonomo has written about music for many years. His books include Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays; Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays; Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band; and AC/DC’s Highway to Hell. Visit him online at No Such Thing As Was, www.joebonomo.substack.com/.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Conversations with Greil Marcus
Publisher: MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: HRD
Condition: New