History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
โ Scribed by Marcus, Greil
- Book ID
- 109155589
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 141 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780300187373
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then proceeds to dramatize how each embodies rock 'n' roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts outโa new language, something new under the sun
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