Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus is a cult classic about punk, Dadaism, the situationists, medieval heretics and the Knights of the Round Table.
Greil Marcus writes for many publications, including Esquire, Interview, and The Threepenny Review. He is the author of Lipstick Traces, The Dustbin of History,, Invisible Republic and Like a Rolling Stone.
"Lipstick Traces" has the energy of its obsessions, and it snares
you in the manner of those intense, questing and often stoned
sessions of intellectual debate you may have experienced in your
college years. It was destined, in other words, to achieve cult
status.--Ben Brantley "New York Times "
A coruscatingly original piece of work, vibrant with the energy of
the bizarre happenings it maps out.--Terry Eagleton "New York Times
Book Review "
For anybody who wants to go deeper into the ontology of an idea
that animates a kind of music, or is illuminated by that music,
read Greil Marcus's "Lipstick Traces", just reissued in an expanded
edition for the book's twentieth anniversary. I often say that
"Traces" is the best book ever written about music, even though
it's not actually about music: it is about the life of an
idea.--Sasha Frere-Jones"New Yorker online" (10/21/2009)
In 1989, Harvard University Press published "Lipstick Traces", the
second book by the American writer and critic Greil Marcus. It was
a dazzling creation, mapping out an untold "secret history" which
connected the Sex Pistols, the Dadaists, the Parisian evenements of
1968, that legendary subversive clique the Situationist
International and an Anabaptist revolt in 16th-century Germany, led
by a notorious libertine named John of Leyden. Among the book's
most ardent fans, it sparked real epiphanies...It stands as a
singularly idiosyncratic product of a genre-cum-tradition rooted in
the business of writing about musicians and the whirl of ideas that
once surrounded them...[Marcus] manages some of the finest music
writing ever to make it on to the page...My 20-year-old copy of
"Lipstick Traces" is the one book I would save from my proverbial
burning house.--John Harris"The Guardian" (06/27/2009)
That Marcus can kick off and end his exhaustive, but always
clear-headed, cross-epochal trek with the Sex Pistols--and make it
all cohere--is but one indication of how fully he meshes the
academy and the gutter.--Katherine Dieckmann "Voice Literary
Supplement "
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