Greil Marcus, in Festival SOS 4.8 2014, in Murcia.
Greil Marcus (San Francisco, June 19, 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He sticks through his scientific and literary essays that attempt to place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than usual in pop music journalism. The life and career
Greil Marcus was born in San Francisco and obtained a bachelor's degree in American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for a doctorate in political science.
His book, Lipstick Traces: a secret history of the 20th century (1989), sought for connections in a century of Western civilization. He pondered in this book that punkrock should be seen as a transhistory cultural phenomenon, Marcus investigated philosophical links between entities as diverse as medieval heretics, Dada, Situationists and Sex Pistols.
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