greil marcus

robinlandseadel at comcast.net robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sat Apr 21 18:42:50 CDT 2007


Oh yeah, you betcha, maybe even crib from---like the essential "Murdered By Capitalism", where he's both blurbed and namechecked severally.
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From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net
 
     Robin:
     Ya'll have to read "Lipstick Traces." Greil Marcus gives a convincing 
> > demonstration of Punk---The Sex Pistols specifically--- as Surrealistic 
> > Protest music, as opposed to the more generically activist, left-wing 
> > stance veering into anarchistic social protest stance of the Clash and
> > all the progeny of Joe Strummer (Billy Bragg included). More than
> > anything else, "Lipstick Traces" serves as an alternate telling of the 
> > long, long history of Anarchy:
> 
> ...but is it the kind of book Pynchon would blurb?
> 
> It does sound good. Just checked online, it's in our local library -
> also ordered one from abebooks for my niece based on your recommendation...
> 
> 
> 


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