Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marcus, Greil, PUBLISHER: PublicAffairs, Greil Marcus saw ong>Bobong> ong>Dylanong> for ong>theong> first time in a New Jersey field in . He didn't know ong>theong> name of ong>theong> 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 ong>Bobong> ong>Dylanong>. In Like A Rolling Stone Marcus locates ong>Dylanong>'s six-minute masterwork in its richest, fullest context, capturing ong>theong> heady atmosphere of ong>theong> recording studio in as musicians and technicians clustered around ong>theong> mercurial genius from Minnesota, ong>theong> young ong>Bobong> ong>Dylanong> at ong>theong> height of his powers. But Marcus shows how, far from being a song only of , "Like a Rolling Stone" is rooted in faraway American places and times, drawing on timeless cultural impulses that make ong>theong> song as challenging, disruptive, and restless today as it ever was, capable of reinvention by artists as disparate as ong>theong> comedian Richard Belzer and ong>theong> Italian hip-hop duo Articolo 31. "Like a Rolling Stone" never loses its essential quality, which is directly to challenge ong>theong> 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.