· Find The Dustbin Of History by Marcus, Greil at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. · “ Not many critics quote Leon Trotsky in one breath and the Sex Pistols in the next, which is why Greil Marcus occupies such a special niche in American culture Marcus writes with clarity and warmth The Dustbin of History reminds us that criticism at its best is a generous act of faith, not a judgmental dressing-down. · Again and again Marcus skewers the widespread assumption that history exists only in the past, that it is behind us, relegated to the dustbin. Here we see instead that history is very much with us, being made and unmade every day, and unless we recognize it our future will be as cramped and impoverished as our present sense of the past.
Greil Marcus is the author of Mystery Train (), Lipstick Traces (), The Shape of Things to Come (), When that Rough God Goes Riding and Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus (both ), and other books. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America (). In recent years he has taught at Berkeley, Princeton, Minnesota, NYU, and the New School in New York. The Dustbin Of History|Greil Marcus, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikk?|Isabella Lucy Bird, The Science of Vehicle Dynamics: Handling, Braking, and Ride of Road and Race Cars|Massimo Guiggiani, The Book of Revelation: A Catholic View|Arthur E. Zannoni. Greil Marcus answers here: more than we will ever know. It is the history in the riff, in the movie or novel or photograph, in the actor's pose or critic's posturing--in short, the history in cultural happenstance--that Marcus reveals here, exposing along the way the distortions and denials that keep us oblivious if not immune to its lessons.
Biography. Marcus was born Greil Gerstley in San Francisco, California, the only son of Greil Gerstley and Eleanor Gerstley (née Hyman), a Jewish www.doorway.ru father, a naval officer, died in December , in the Philippine typhoon that sank the USS Hull, on which he was serving as second-in-command. With the startling insights and electric style that have made him our foremost writer on American music, Greil Marcus brings back to life the cultural events that have defined us and our time. Again and again he skewers the widespread assumption that history exists only in the past, that it is behind us, relegated to the dustbin. "How much history can be communicated by pressure on a guitar string?" Robert Palmer wondered in Deep Blues. Greil Marcus answers here#58; more than we will ever know. It is the history in the riff, in the movie or novel or photograph, in the actor's pose or critic's posturing#;in.
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