Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'N' Roll Music by Greil Marcus - Essential book for all music historians

Frank Rich reviewed the book for The Village Voice and wrote that Marcus' "frame of reference is so vast that he never runs out of connections worth making between the music he loves and just about anything else that matters in American art and life.”[5] David Itzkoff and Alan Light, in a 2005 critical roundup of music-related books, claimed that Mystery Train is "perhaps the finest book ever written about pop music."[6] New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner stated in 2015 that "most critics and serious listeners think [Mystery Train]’s almost certainly the best book yet written about American music in general, and about rock in particular."[5]

In 2011, Time magazine picked it among the "100 best and most influential [books] written in English since 1923.
Third Edition Revised 1990


Condition: used, binding tight, no missing pages
£25 + p&p


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