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Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
by Marcus, Greil
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| Previously published as Invisible Republic, The Old, Weird America is Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967-music that remains as seductive and baffling today as it was more than thirty years ago. "Marcus's contention is that there can be found in American folk a community as deep, as electric, as perverse and as conflicted as all America, and that the songs Dylan recorded out of the public eye, in a basement in Woodstock, are where that community as a whole gets to speak," wrote Mark Singer in The Wire. But the country mapped in this book, as Bruce Shapiro wrote in The Nation, "is not Woody Guthrie's land made for you and me...... It's what Marcus calls 'the old, weird America'"-the "playground for God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence me, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of all strips," as Luc Sante put it in New York magazine. It's no wonder The Old, Weird America "reads like a thriller" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly); as Mary Gaitskill said in Artforum, Marcus's writing works much like music: It flies by in a comet tail."AUTHORBIO: Greil Marcus is the author of Double Trouble; Dead Elvis; Lipstick Traces; and Mystery Train. His pieces have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Artforum; Interview; The New Yorker; The New York Times; and Esquire. He lives in Berkeley, California. REVIEW: "This book is terminal, goes deeply into the subconscious and plows through that period of time like a rake. Greil Marcus has done it again."(Bob Dyl | | |
Published September, 2001
by Picador, Paperback, 304 Pages, ISBN: 9780312420437, ISBN-10: 0312420439, List Price $15.00.
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