manages some of the finest music writing ever to make it on to the page.
It stands as a singularly idiosyncratic product of a genre-cum-tradition rooted in the business of writing about musicians and the whirl of ideas that once surrounded them. Among the book's most ardent fans, it sparked real epiphanies. It was a dazzling creation, mapping out an untold 'secret history' which connected the Sex Pistols, the Dadaists, the Parisian événements of 1968, that legendary subversive clique the Situationist International and an Anabaptist revolt in 16th-century Germany, led by a notorious libertine named John of Leyden. It was destined, in other words, to achieve cult status.-Ben Brantley 'New York Times 'In 1989, Harvard University Press published Lipstick Traces, the second book by the American writer and critic Greil Marcus. Guttenplan'London Review of Books' ()That Marcus can kick off and end his exhaustive, but always clear-headed, cross-epochal trek with the Sex Pistols-and make it all cohere-is but one indication of how fully he meshes the academy and the gutter.-Katherine Dieckmann 'Village Voice Literary Supplement 'Lipstick Traces has the energy of its obsessions, and it snares you in the manner of those intense, questing and often stoned sessions of intellectual debate you may have experienced in your college years.
📘 Lee Ahora 📥 Descargar Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century de Greil Marcusĭescripción - Críticas A coruscatingly original piece of work, vibrant with the energy of the bizarre happenings it maps out.-Terry Eagleton 'New York Times Book Review 'The 'secret' of Marcus's history is its poetry.widely separated persons and events call out to each other and 'connect' precisely because so many of ordinary history's causal and syntactic arrangements have been positively negated.-Jerome McGann'London Review of Books' ()Probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson.-D. Lee un libro Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century de Greil Marcus Libros Gratis en EPUB, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century ePub Mobi
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