{"product_id":"the-dustbin-of-history-9780674218581","title":"The Dustbin of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow much history can be communicated by pressure on a guitar string? Robert Palmer wondered in \u003ci\u003eDeep Blues\u003c\/i\u003e. Greil Marcus answers here: more than we will ever know. It is the history in the riff, in the movie or novel or photograph, in the actor's pose or critic's posturing--in short, the history in cultural happenstance--that Marcus reveals here, exposing along the way the distortions and denials that keep us oblivious if not immune to its lessons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether writing about the Beat Generation or Umberto Eco, Picasso's Guernica or the massacre in Tiananmen Square, \u003ci\u003eThe Manchurian Candidate\u003c\/i\u003e or John Wayne's acting, Eric Ambler's antifascist thrillers or Camille Paglia, Marcus uncovers the histories embedded in our cultural moments and acts, and shows how, through our reading of the truths our culture tells and those it twists and conceals, we situate ourselves in that history and in the world. Rarely has a history lesson been so exhilarating. With the startling insights and electric style that have made him our foremost writer on American music, Marcus brings back to life the cultural events that have defined us and our time, the social milieu in which they took place, and the individuals engaged in them. As he does so, we see that these cultural instances--as lofty as \u003ci\u003eThe Book of J\u003c\/i\u003e, as humble as a TV movie about Jan and Dean, as fleeting as a few words spoken at the height of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, as enduring as a Paleolithic painting--often have more to tell us than the master-narratives so often passed off as faultless representations of the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgain and again Marcus skewers the widespread assumption that history exists only in the past, that it is behind us, relegated to the dustbin. Here we see instead that history is very much with us, being made and unmade every day, and unless we recognize it our future will be as cramped and impoverished as our present sense of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greil Marcus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674218581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarcus, Greil:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Greil Marcus is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Doors\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMystery Train\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40085629501555,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_68d8754d-6bcc-4eae-bc97-6e3ef2074c95.jpg?v=1652450662","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-dustbin-of-history-9780674218581","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}