The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus faculty, the MFA in Creative Writing and Writing & Democracy program at The New School.
Yale University Press, 2014
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 out — a new language, something new under the sun.