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When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison
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by Greil Marcus

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"Van Morrison," says Greil Marcus, "remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music." When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was rereleased as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the Billboard charts, a first for any Van Morrison recording. The wild swings in the music, mirroring the swings in Morrison's success and in people's appreciation (or lack of it) of his music, make Van Morrison one of the most perplexing and mysterious figures in popular modern music, and a perfect subject for the wise and insightful scrutiny of Greil Marcus, one of America's most dedicated cultural critics.

This book is Marcus's quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day. In these dislocations Marcus finds the singer on his own artistic quest precisely to reach some extreme musical threshold, the moments that are not enclosed by the will or the intention of the performer but which somehow emerge at the limits of the musician and his song.

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  • Title When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison
  • Author Greil Marcus
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 195
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
  • Publication date 2010-04
  • ISBN 9781586488215 / 158648821X
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock music - History and criticism, Morrison, Van - Criticism and interpretation
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010001656
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.421

About the author

Greil Marcus is the author of The Shape of Things to Come, Like a Rolling Stone, and The Old Weird America; a 20th 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 lives in Berkeley.

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