More Real Life Rock: The Wilderness Years, 2014-2021

In his book "The Age of Wire and String," Greil Marcus explores the recent past through the lens of culture and politics, highlighting the most whip-smart cultural artifacts to compose a mosaic portrait of American society.

Format: Hardback
Length: 344 pages
Publication date: 07 June 2022
Publisher: Yale University Press

From one of our most esteemed cultural critics comes a hilarious, fierce, and uninhibited musical chronicle of the convulsive recent past. This unique guide explores rock music's profound resonance in every aspect of our lives, offering a smart set of suggestions for further reading, viewing, and listening. Celebrated author Greil Marcus has applied his unmatched critical apparatus to a diverse range of topics, including music, television, radio, politics, overheard comments, advertisements, and chance street encounters. This book collects hundreds of items from the crisscrossing spectrum of culture and politics throughout the tumultuous past six years of American life, serving as an essential travel guide to the scorched landscape of recent history.

Tracking the evolution of national identity during the Trump administration, Marcus highlights the most whip-smart cultural artifacts to compose a mosaic portrait of American society. This portrait is filled with unexpected heroes and villains, absurdity and its consequences, humor and despair, terror and defiance, as seen through media, music, and more. Bursting with Marcus's effortless, no-nonsense, unapologetic verve, this book features seventy-three columns from 2014 through February 2021.

Dimension: 235 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300260984