Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Fifth Edition [Format Kindle] Auteur: Greil Marcus - ISBN:
B00GAHEWI8 - Langue: Français
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Catch a train to the heart of rock ?n? roll with this essential study of the quintessential American art form. First published in 1975, Greil Marcus?s
Mystery Train remains a benchmark study of rock ?n? roll and a classic in the field of music criticism. Focusing on six key artists?Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley?Marcus explores the evolution and impact of rock ?n? roll and its unique place in American culture. This fifth edition of
Mystery Train includes an updated and rewritten Notes and Discographies section, exploring the evolution and continuing impact of the recordings featured in the book.
Quatrième de couverture
«C'est donc un livre sur le rock'n'roll - une partie du rock'n'roll - et sur l'Amérique. Ce n'est pas une analyse historique ou purement musicale, ni une galerie de portraits. J'ai essayé d'élargir le contexte dans lequel on écoute la musique, d'analyser le rock non pas comme expression de la jeunesse, ou de la contre-culture, mais de la culture américaine elle-même.Les artistes sur lesquels j'ai choisi d'écrire m'intéressent en particulier parce qu'ils ont plus d'ambition que les autres et qu'ils prennent plus de risques. Ils prennent le risque du désastre artistique (dans le vocabulaire du rock : la prétention), de se mettre à dos un public qu'il est plus facile de flatter que de provoquer - leurs ambitions ont beaucoup à voir avec celles que Robbie Robertson avait pour le Band : "La musique ne doit jamais être inoffensive." Ce qui m'attire encore plus chez le Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman et Elvis, c'est que je pense qu'ils se voient comme des Américains symboliques. Pour moi, ils essaient, avec leur musique, d'être à la hauteur de ce rôle.»Greil Marcus.
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REVUE Founding rolling stone writer Greil Marcus is what you'd describe, were you English and of a certain age, as an "Anorak". He's an obsessive, passionate, academic lover of rock 'n' roll in all its many forms. Here he sketches out a book structured in a loose fashion like the bible, in that it has an "old testament" surveying two of rock's 'ancestors' and a "new testament" on five of their 'inheritors'. It's a book about rock 'n' roll. In short, Marcus waxes long and with great hyperbole on things which most grown ups in this day and age find rather trifling.
Well, I don't, and I think this is a fantastic book. It's subjects are eclectic as can be: Robert Johnson is a reasonable enough choice for "ancestor of the rock 'n' roll tradition" but it would be a brave man who would pick one-man band "Harmonica Frank" Floyd, from Toccopola Mississippi, as the other. But Marcus does, and creates a fascinating case for his inclusion.
The threads he picks up of rock iconography are incredible - the myth of Stagger Lee, blended into the history of Sly Stone was something I'd never heard of, but it prompted me to head off in that direction and see what I could find. Likewise the short chapter on Robert Johnson.
In a lot of ways, that's the beauty of this book: For all its obsession-shot prose, it functions as a bunch of references; directions which the reader can follow up at leisure, and Marcus's effervescent writing style functions like a firm push between the shoulder blades. The bibliography is almost as long as the text, and it's well worth the read.
There are some who find Marcus' style too garish, and there is a view that he is too much of a boffin - an anorak, if you will - for his own good. I don't agree with that - Marcus is self-aware enough to see the funny side of himself and his subject matter, and he is always so enthusiastic that it isn't fair to say he misses the point, or the energy, of what he's writing about.
Marcus' later work, especially on punk rock, is well worth investigating too. Don't believe the nay-sayers who don't like his "straying" into punk: "In the Fascist Bathroom", Marcus' anthology of essays on punk rock is one of the funniest, most compelling reads I've had in a long while.
Par Olly Buxton
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