A cult classic in a new edition. This book is 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. The song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of modern society once set out by a small group of Paris intellectuals. In Lipstick Traces, Greil Marcus's classic book on punk, Dadaism, the situationists, medieval heretics and the Knights of the Round Table (amongst others), the greatest cultural critic of our times unravels the secret history of the twentieth century.
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'Lipstick Traces time travels on the wings of philosophy, history, conjecture and copious research to visit parallel movements of cultural rebellion... they range dizzyingly from punk to Dadaism, from French situationists to Anabaptism... destined, in other words, to achieve cult status.' The New York Times 'The world's greatest living rock critic.' Charles Shaar Murray, Independent
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Greil Marcus was born in San Francisco in 1945. He is the author of Mystery Train, Invisible Republic, Lipstick Traces, and Double Trouble, and the editor of Lester Bangs's Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. In 1998 he curated the exhibition '1948' at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. He was described by John Rockwell in the New York Times as 'a writer of rare perception and a genuinely innovative thinker'. Greil Marcus lives in California.
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This book is divided into 2 parts. The first bases history around the Sex Pistols, and the second gives a more sensible (but less quirky) overview of 20th century history. Margin notes instead of foot notes, the relevent information is easy to find. A hopeless refrence book, but a great read nevertheless. The originality of thinking, and the illustrations come together to give a new relection of the recent past. I suppose one could call it how punk came about, but it wouldn't give the book justice; as in no way does it concentrate only on punk. It is used as a familiar ground to base everything else around. How did anarchy come about? Written sensatively and with many little gems. I would recomend this book to people with an interest in humanities, whether practising artists/musicians, or lovers of theory, this book gives an origional slant, and explains everything from the begining. Great for GCSE/A-Level to make things fun, or for people with a wider knowledge, who've got bored with reading the same old opinions.
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Naysayers, refuseniks, weirdos, anarchists, modern artists, punks. They have shared values, and Marcus makes us see the links between their seemingly separate movements. So we go from a Sex Pistols gig to Dadaist art, then to the 1968 Paris riots.
It's unstructured, but heady stuff. It's not the Mojo magazine 'just the facts' style, it's more like Simon Frith music theory after a William Burroughs cut-up, the work of a graduate student talking and free associating in the bar, rather than his actual thesis.
It's unstructured, but heady stuff. It's not the Mojo magazine 'just the facts' style, it's more like Simon Frith music theory after a William Burroughs cut-up, the work of a graduate student talking and free associating in the bar, rather than his actual thesis.
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