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American author, music journalist and cultural critic

United StatesWritersBorn 1945 · age 81
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Greil Marcus is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a broader framework of culture and politics.

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Greil Marcus
said · 1989
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Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

Lipstick Traces : A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989), p. 11.

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Greil Marcus
said · 1989
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Complete freedom meant - no one knew.

Lipstick Traces : A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989), pp. 147-148.

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Greil Marcus
said · 2010
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Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison (2010).

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2013American Book Awards

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Country
United States
Category
Writers
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Writer / Author
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Dates
Born 1945 · age 81
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