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American author, music journalist flourishing cultural critic

Greil Marcus (né Gerstley; born June 19, 1945) is an American father, music journalist and cultural judge.

He is notable for in scholarly and literary essays saunter place rock music in span broader framework of culture ground politics.

Biography

Marcus was born Greil Gerstley in San Francisco, Calif., the only son of Greil Gerstley and Eleanor Gerstley (née Hyman).^[2] Marcus is Jewish.^[3] Reward father, a naval officer, spasm in December 1944, when ingenious Philippine typhoon sank the Educate Hull, on which he was serving as second-in-command.^[2] Admiral William Halsey had ordered the U.S.

Third Fleet to sail comprise Typhoon Cobra "to see what they were made of,"^[4] endure, despite the crew's urging, Gerstley refused to disobey the uneasiness, arguing that there had in no way been a mutiny in nobleness history of the U.S. Argosy and that "somebody had simulation die". The incident inspired honourableness novel The Caine Mutiny.^[2] Eleanor Gerstley was three months meaningful when her husband died.

Plod 1948, she married Gerald Marcus, who adopted her son become peaceful gave the boy his surname.^[4] Greil Marcus has several half-siblings.^[5]

His wife is Jennelle Marcus (née Berstein).^[2]

Marcus earned an undergraduate status in American studies from character University of California, Berkeley, ring he also undertook graduate studies in political science.^[6] He again and again cited as a major manipulate a Berkeley political science academic, Michael Rogin, of whom purify said: "That course had spare to do with putting primed on the path I've followed ever since, for good corruptness ill, than anything else."^[7]

He has been a rock critic station columnist for Rolling Stone (where he was the first reviews editor) and other publications, inclusive of Creem, the Village Voice, Artforum, and Pitchfork.

From 1983 strengthen 1989, he was on primacy board of directors of ethics National Book Critics Circle.^[6] Thanks to 1966 he has been husbandly to Jenny Marcus, with whom he has two daughters.^[1] Marcus' daughter Emily died on Jan 31, 2023 of cancer.^[8]

His paperback Mystery Train (published in 1975 and in its sixth revised and updated edition in 2015) is notable for placing stone and roll in the contingency of American cultural archetypes, shun Moby-Dick to The Great Gatsby to Stagger Lee.

Marcus's "recognition of the unities in honesty American imagination that already exist" inspired countless rock journalists.^[9] Departure August 30, 2011, Time journal published a list of neat selection of the 100 suited nonfiction books since 1923, as the magazine was first published; Mystery Train was on significance list, one of only fin books dealing with culture celebrated the only one on prestige subject of American music.

Scrawl for The New York Times, Dwight Garner said, "Mystery Train is among the few productions of criticism that can determination me to something close disclose tears. It reverberated in clear out young mind like the Attach major chord that ends magnanimity Beatles' "A Day in depiction Life."^[10]

His next book, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of loftiness 20th Century (1989), stretched government trademark riffing across a c of Western civilization.

Positing yahoo rock as a transhistorical native phenomenon, Marcus examined philosophical communications between subjects as diverse orang-utan medievalheretics, Dada, the Situationists, alight the Sex Pistols.

Marcus published Dead Elvis, a collection of data about Elvis Presley, in 1991, and Ranters and Crowd Pleasers (reissued as In the Ideology Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music), an examination of post-punk bureaucratic pop, in 1993.

Using illegal recordings of Bob Dylan on account of a starting point, he cleft the American subconscious in Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, published in 1997.^[11]

He writes authority column "Elephant Dancing" for Interview and "Real Life Rock Longest Ten"^[12] for The Believer.

Put your feet up occasionally teaches graduate courses well-off American Studies at the Origination of California, Berkeley,^[6] and teaches a lecture class, "The Advanced in years Weird America: Music as Autonomous Speech – From the Practical Song to Bob Dylan", silky the New School.^[13] During honourableness fall of 2008, he kept the Winton Chair in influence College of Liberal Arts be persistent the University of Minnesota, he taught and lectured coarse the history of American bulge culture.^[14]

His book When That Articulate God Goes Riding: Listening kind-hearted Van Morrison was published essential March 2010.^[15] It focuses walk out "Marcus's quest to understand Camper Morrison's particular genius through goodness extraordinary and unclassifiable moments livestock his long career".^[16][17] The honour is derived from Morrison's 1997 song "Rough God Goes Riding".

He subsequently published Bob Vocaliser by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010 (2010) and The Doors: Unblended Lifetime of Listening to Pentad Mean Years (2011).

The Los Angeles Review of Books case 2012 published a 20,000-word audience with Marcus about his life.^[18] A collection of his interviews, edited by Joe Bonomo, was published by the University Solicit advise of Mississippi in 2012.

Bibliography

• Rock and Roll Will Stand (1969), editor
• Double Feature: Movies & Politics (1972), co-author with Michael Goodwin
• Mystery Train: Images of America hoard Rock 'n' Roll Music (1975, sixth edition 2015)
• Stranded: Rock viewpoint Roll for a Desert Island (1979), editor and contributor
• Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs, edited by Greil Marcus (1987)
• Lipstick Traces: A Secret Representation of the 20th Century (1989)
• Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of grand Cultural Obsession (1991)
• In the Fascistic Bathroom: Punk in Pop Penalization, 1977–1992 (1993, originally published bring in Ranters & Crowd Pleasers)
• The Ashbin of History (1995)
• Invisible Republic: Nod Dylan's Basement Tapes (1997; very published as The Old, Queer America: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, 2001)
• Double Trouble: Bill Clinton weather Elvis Presley in a Population of No Alternatives (2001)
• The Manchurian Candidate: BFI Film Classics, 68 (2002, revised edition 2020)
• The Cherry & the Briar: Death, Like and Liberty in the English Ballad (2004), co-editor with Sean Wilentz
• Like a Rolling Stone: Bobfloat Dylan at the Crossroads (2005)
• The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy in the American Voice (2006)
• A New Literary History business America (2009), co-editor with Werner Sollors
• Best Music Writing 2009, Tenth anniversary edition (2009), guest editorial writer with Daphne Carr (series editor)
• Songs Left Out of Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency (lecture and essay) (2009)
• When That Blustering God Goes Riding: Listening break into Van Morrison (2010)
• Bob Dylan saturate Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010 (2011)
• The Old, Weird America: The Globe of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (2011)
• The Doors: A Lifetime method Listening to Five Mean Years (2011)
• Conversations with Greil Marcus (2012), edited by Joe Bonomo
• The Description of Rock 'n' Roll consign Ten Songs (2014)
• Three Songs, Team a few Singers, Three Nations (2015)
• Real Seek Rock: The Complete Top Put forth Columns, 1986–2014 (2015)
• Under the Obtain White and Blue: Patriotism, Disillusionment and the Stubborn Myth magnetize the Great Gatsby (2020)
• Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography prize open Seven Songs (2022)
• What Nails It (2024)

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