History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review).   Unlike previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out—a new language, som