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# Read * The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus ð eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes Fascinating and essential for any Dylan and American folk fan Chris Stolz (this is the updated verion of Marcus' "Invisible Republic")In 1965, Bob Dylan played Newport with an electric band. Playing songs from the groundbreaking "Highway 61 Revisited", Dylan-- in one of the finest performances of his career-- was roundly booed by the audience and condemned by critics.Why?Greil Marcus' fascinating book starts with this question: why were audiences so hostile to Dylan's new material and style? Mar
| Title | : | The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312420439 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-10 |
| Language | : | English |
And here it is, one heaven of a book What Marcus brings to these songs is a variety of good things: fierce fervor, social convictions, a loving discrimination, never a touch of envy, and an extraordinary ability to evoke in words the very feel (throaty, threatening, thorough, thick with thought) of a man's voice, of this man's voice."--Christopher Ricks, The Guardian (London). Dylan against receding vistas of American music and culture."--Robert Polito, The New York Times Book Review"The year's best work of criticism, hands down Marcus draws bold freehand loops around Dylan's music, loops so wide and loose that they t
And his analysis of that territory "reads like a thriller" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly) and exhibits "a mad, sparkling brilliance" (David Remnick, The New Yorker) throughout. This new edition of The Old, Weird America includes an updated discography.. Previously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism,The Old, Weird America is Greil Marcus's widely acclaimed book on the secret music (the so-called "Basement Tapes") made by Bob Dylan and the Band while in seclusion in Woodstock, New York, in 1967--a folksy yet funky, furious yet hilarious music that remains as seductive and baffling today as it was more than thirty years ago.As Mark Sinker observed in The Wire: "Marcus's contention is that there ca
Fascinating and essential for any Dylan and American folk fan Chris Stolz (this is the updated verion of Marcus' "Invisible Republic")In 1965, Bob Dylan played Newport with an electric band. Playing songs from the groundbreaking "Highway 61 Revisited", Dylan-- in one of the finest performances of his career-- was roundly booed by the audience and condemned by critics.Why?Greil Marcus' fascinating book starts with this question: why were audiences so hostile to Dylan's new material and style? Marcus' thesis is that Dylan on Highway 61 rediscovered the folk music that America had forgotten, a folk music which had . Reach excedes grasp desert girl I like Greil's approach, which worked so much better in the recent "Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan At The Crossroads", of honing in on small detail to produce something profound. Maybe this book can be considered practice for the latter, because it simply didn't work here. I welcome experimental writing, but in this case the wash of minute detail combined with nonlinearity produced confusion rather than clarity. I'm afraid for me the insights are Greil's alone rather than universal. To his credit though, in the same way I'd rather see an . The Old, Weird America This is what seems to be a word-for-word reissue of Marcus's Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, confusingly given a completely different title. In the Author's Note, Marcus says this is the title he originally wanted to give it. I have to say, they still got it wrong. The new subtitle, The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, is an improvement, but still doesn't completely address the main fault with every title and subtitle given so far - the book isn't really about Dylan, and only tangentially about the Basement Tapes. It's
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