Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called “Real Life Rock Top Ten.” It has been a laboratory where he has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements. Taken together, his musings, reflections, and sallies amount to a subtle and implicit theory of how cultural objects fall through time and circumstance and often deliver unintended consequences, both in the present and in the future. Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispensable volume packed with startling arguments and casual brilliance. |
Contents
Artforum 19901998 | 69 |
Salon 19992003 | 165 |
City Pages 20032004 | 341 |
Interview 20062007 | 377 |
The Believer 20082014 | 393 |
Acknowledgments | 523 |
Credits | 525 |
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