Greil Marcus. (2006). Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads. PublicAffairs.

Greil Marcus. 2006. Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan At the Crossroads. PublicAffairs.

Greil Marcus, Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan At the Crossroads. PublicAffairs, 2006.

Greil Marcus. Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan At the Crossroads. PublicAffairs, 2006.

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     Greil Marcus is the author of Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces, Dead Elvis, In the Fascist Bathroom, The Dustbin of History, The Old, Weird America and Double Trouble. He has written for numerous publications, among them the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Threepenny Review, Artforum, Esquire, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Granta. In 2000 and 2002 he taught at Berkeley and Princeton, and he currently lectures in the U.S. and Europe. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music — "simply peerless," in Nick Hornby's words, "not only as a rock writer but as a cultural historian" — and Bob Dylan. In Like A Rolling Stone Marcus locates Dylan's six-minute masterwork in its richest, fullest context, capturing the heady atmosphere of the recording studio in 1965 as musicians and technicians clustered around the mercurial genius from Minnesota, the young Bob Dylan at the height of his powers.
But Marcus shows how, far from being a song only of 1965, "Like a Rolling Stone" is rooted in faraway American places and times, drawing on timeless cultural impulses that make the song as challenging, disruptive, and restless today as it ever was, capable of reinvention by artists as disparate as the comedian Richard Belzer and the Italian hip-hop duo Articolo 31. "Like a Rolling Stone" never loses its essential quality, which is directly to challenge the listener: it remains a call to arms and a demand for a better world. Forty years later it is still revolutionary as will and idea, as an attack and an embrace. How Does it Feel? In this unique, burningly intense book, Marcus tells you, and much more besides.

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     February 21, 2005
     Marcus's engaging exegesis on the musical and cultural ramifications of Dylan's 1965 six-and-half-minute hit is not just a study of a popular song and a historic era, but an examination of the heroic status of the American visionary artist. Recorded when American popular music was "like a running election," Dylan's "music of transformations" induced a conflicted, confused America to look at its social disasters of racism, drug abuse and Vietnam, Marcus says, while simultaneously permitting it to strip away its illusions and hope for a better future. Ostensibly about a rich young socialite's fall from grace, the song's lyrics are open to many interpretations, which may have helped make it such a phenomenon. Marcus displays a comprehensive knowledge of American popular and political history, tracing the song's roots back to Robert Johnson and Hank Williams and spotting its influence on such disparate artists as Frank Zappa, the Village People and various contestants on American Idol
     . Part scholarly discourse and part beatnik rambling, the book is chockfull of lively metaphors and includes 20 pages of studio outtake banter. Marcus successfully convinces readers that (in the words of hit songwriter Gerry Goffin), "Dylan managed to do something that not one of us was able to do: put poetry in rock n' roll and just stand up there like a mensch and sing it." Agent, Wendy Weil.

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     April 1, 2005
     From the explosive shot of the snare drum that opens the song to the final strains of the whining harmonica, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" charted a new direction in rock'n'roll. Veteran rock writer Marcus ("Lipstick Traces") uses the song not only to measure the changes in Dylan's style but also to measure the changes occurring in the world of music from 1965 onward. Captured in one momentous take, "Like a Rolling Stone" seized Dylan's genius and lifted the work of studio musicians to a height that multiple takes would not have caught. This perfect moment was released on a single that divided the song into two three-minute halves and reached Number 2 on the Billboard Top 100 on September 2, 1965. Yet Dylan's live performances of the song either endeared the singer to fans or enraged them; at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, some screamed "Judas" at him for debuting it on electric guitar. Nevertheless, Marcus contends that "Like a Rolling Stone" influenced songs as diverse as Richard Harris's "MacArthur Park" (1968), the Rolling Stones's "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (1969), and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" (1971). Engaging cultural history, this appears to be the only book to use one song as a prism for Dylan's life and work; highly recommended for all libraries. ["Rolling" "Stone" magazine recently chose "Like a Rolling Stone" as the greatest song of all time. -Ed.] -Henry L. Carrigan Jr., Lancaster, PA

     Copyright 2005 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from March 15, 2005
     In " Invisible Republic" (1997), Marcus delved into the legendary series of "underground" recordings by Bob Dylan and the Band known as the Basement Tapes. Here he narrows focus to a single song of Dylan's, "Like a Rolling Stone," recorded four decades ago but every bit as potent and compelling today. Nearly everything about it was groundbreaking, from its six-minute length to its solidification of Dylan's controversial move from folk to rock, and nothing Dylan recorded before or since has had its musical impact. Marcus provides a detailed account of the recording session, of course, but goes far beyond the standard behind-the-music approach, placing the song in the context not just of Dylan's work but of American music overall, from the folk and blues that informed it to the music that followed it, by Dylan as well as others, including such obscure and bizarre covers of "Rolling Stone" as an Italian hip-hop treatment. Marcus' vast understanding of American culture and intimate knowledge of Dylan's career make this an eye-opening read, and if his sometimes hyperbolic approach will strike some as overselling the song's significance, how many other pop recordings could withstand such intense--and loving--scrutiny?(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2005, American Library Association.)

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