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Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads Paperback - 2006

by Greil Marcus

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The preeminent musicologist and prolific author presents a rhapsodic appreciation of his and Bob Dylan's favorite song--one that defined an era but has, remained timeless in its originality and power.

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For the fortieth anniversary of the recording of Like a Rolling Stone, the definitive biography of the song that caught the questing spirit of its time and overnight changed the rules of the possible in popular music for all time.

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Everyone remembers where they were when they heard that Kennedy was shot.

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  • Title Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
  • Author Greil Marcus
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
  • Publication date 2006-04-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781586483821 / 158648382X
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.54 x 0.67 in (20.88 x 14.07 x 1.70 cm)
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Dylan, Bob - Criticism and interpretation, Dylan, Bob
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004060053
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.421

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  • New York Times, 04/16/2006, Page 24

About the author

Greil Marcus is the author of Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, When that Rough God Goes Riding, The Shape of Things to Come, Mystery Train, Dead Elvis, In the Fascist Bathroom, Double Trouble, Like a Rolling Stone, and The Old Weird America; a twentieth anniversary edition of his book Lipstick Traces was published in 2009.

With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America, published last year by Harvard University Press. Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column "Real Life Rock Top 10" appears regularly in the Believer. He has lectured at U Cal, Berkeley, The Whitney Museum of Art, and Princeton University. He lives in Berkeley.

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