American author, music journalist and cultural critic
Greil Marcus
Marcus at Festival SOS 4.8 in Murcia, 2014
Born
(1945-06-19) June 19, 1945 (age 78)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Author, critic, journalist
Known for
Rock critic for Rolling Stone, Creem, the Village Voice, and Pitchfork
Spouse
Jenny Marcus
(m. 1966)
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Greil Marcus (born June 19, 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a broader framework of culture and politics.
^Beckett, Andy (May 23, 1993). "A Surfer on the Zeitgeist: This isn't exactly life on the edge: Greil Marcus is married, nearly 50, and lives in a nice big house in northern California. But he is still making something new out of writing about rock". The Independent. London.
Marcus, who adopted her son and gave the boy his surname. GreilMarcus has several half-siblings. His wife is Jennelle Marcus (née Berstein). Marcus earned...
January 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2009. Marcus, Greil (4 June 2010). "Listening to Van Morrison by GreilMarcus". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2012...
Merry Clayton. American author, music journalist and cultural critic GreilMarcus, writing for Rolling Stone magazine at the time of its release, praised...
8, 2011. Marcus, Greil (April 11, 2005). "GreilMarcus on Recording 'Like a Rolling Stone'". NPR. Retrieved November 25, 2010. Marcus, Greil (May 13,...
2011. Marcus, Greil (1982). Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music (Revised ed.). E.P. Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-47708-2. Marcus, Greil (2006)...
volume consists of regular songs, dealing with everyday life. Critic GreilMarcus describes its thematic interests as being "marriage, labor, dissipation...
on the blackboard when the teacher was out of the room. According to GreilMarcus, Elvis, "whatever his mother might have thought," seems to have spent...
Language? Routledge (2013) ISBN 9781135084851 p. xxii. Marcus, Greil (10 May 2010). "GreilMarcus - Notes on the Making of A New Literary History of America"...
Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic, collected writings, GreilMarcus, ed. Anchor Press, 1987. (ISBN 0-679-72045-6) Main Lines, Blood Feasts...
unrest endemic to rock and roll style and attitude. The rock historian GreilMarcus characterized them as symbols of tribal teenage identity which provided...
NY: Rolling Stone Press/Random House. pp. 454–455. ISBN 0-394-72107-1. GreilMarcus (December 13, 1976). "Bob Seger Never Forgets". The Village Voice. Mary...
City Ramblers, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez, to name a few. Rock critic GreilMarcus in his liner-note essay for the 1997 Smithsonian reissue, quoted musician...
Marcus (2010), p. 53. Grissim Jr., John (22 June 1972). "Van Morrison: The Rolling Stone Interview". Rolling Stone. "Astral Weeks". In GreilMarcus (Ed...
ideas on Gang of Four's work, Jon King remarked, in a 1980 letter to GreilMarcus, that "where I think that Situationism was good was in the development...
Music of Bob Dylan. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1617130120. GreilMarcus (2010). Bob Dylan by GreilMarcus: Writings 1968-2010. PublicAffairs, U.S. p. 394. ISBN 9781586489199...
22, 2014. Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music by GreilMarcus 1982 E.P. Dutton p.291 San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills...
received excellent reviews on its initial releases both in the UK and US. GreilMarcus of Rolling Stone magazine wrote: "most of the songs... have a great deal...
"'Conversations with GreilMarcus' Are Not Conversations About GreilMarcus". PopMatters. Retrieved January 18, 2013. Born in San Francisco in 1945, Marcus has spent...
May 12, 2023. Marlowe, Ann (2009). "1970; 1972: Linda Lovelace". In Marcus, Greil; Sollors, Werner (eds.). A New Literary History of America. Harvard...
writing papers with rock-music themes for philosophy classes. Writer GreilMarcus, in his introduction to the Da Capo edition of Aesthetics, maintains...
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