America is a nation making itself up as it goes along. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, this book gives us a fresh, kaleidoscopic view of what 'Made in America' means.

Presents a collection of photographs that features important figure in the world of rock & roll, from The Beatles to Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix to John Coltrane. This book discusses the coded nature of celebrity portraiture, the 1970s music scene in New York City, the frank sexuality of rock musicians, and how the Beatles' look evolved over time.

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung .

Explores a pivotal period in contemporary history.

Untangles the story of America's covenant with itself - the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives. This account moves back and forth between culture and politics, and with deep dives into the work of a few artists who strikingly dramatise the challenge America poses to each of its citizens.

Featuring original contributions from music critics, this work is a snapshot of the state of pop music criticism. A follow-up and homage to Greil Marcus' rock 'n' roll classic Stranded , it asks the question: What album would you bring to a desert island, and why?

Talks about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called Anarchy in the UK was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. In this book on punk, Dadaism, the situationists, medieval heretics, and the Knights of the Round Table, unravel the secret history of the twentieth century.

Pieces 1990-2005. The first collection of essays by groundbreaking cultural critic Luc Sante, described by William Gibson as having burning passion, and a prose style to die for.

Sardonic, bitter, threatening, compassionate, gleeful, and most of all loud, Like a Rolling Stone is much more than a song. Six minutes and six seconds in length, it was released by Dylan despite the received wisdom of the day as to what constituted a single. Published on the 40th anniversary of its release and recording, Greil Marcus's extraordinary book reconstructs the context in which the ...

Was punk just another moment in music history, a flash in time when a group of young rebels exploded in a fury of raw sound? Greil Marcus delves into the afterlife of punk as a much richer phenomenon - a form of artistic and social rebellion that continually erupts into popular culture.

In 1978, the author asked twenty writers on rock a question: Which one rock and roll album would you take to a desert island? This work collects those resulting essays including twenty declarations to such albums as The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet, the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, and Something Else by the Kinks.

In 1965, one song defined a generation caught the questing spirit of the era and changed the rules of the possible in popular music for all time. This book captures the heady atmosphere of the recording studio in 1965 as witnessed by many clustered around the mercurial genius from Minnesota.

Celebrates some of the best in music writing on various style of music, from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more.

Argues that there can be found in American folk a community as deep, as electric, as perverse and as conflicted as all America, and that the songs Bob Dylan recorded out of the public eye, in a basement in Woodstock with the group who would later become The Band, are where that community as a whole gets to speak.

A special 25th anniversary edition of this classic study of American rock and roll focusing on Sly Stone, Randy Newman and Elvis Presley amongst many others. The book looks at the American dream touching on myth, landscape and oral tradition of the continent.