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Greil Marcus, The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes and Mystery Train
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Tuesday Mar 25, 2008 (8pm)
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Directions: California at Presidio
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$10
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A combination of erudition and adventure fuels the writing of Greil Marcus, a Berkeley-based critic best known for his explications of American music. Todd Haynes' recent piece of Dylanology (I'm Not There) has Marcus books like The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes and Mystery Train all over it, and the critic's influence extends to any scribe tempted to mention Walt Whitman and Robert Johnson in the same breath. A dedicated chronicler of mythic landscapes, Marcus conjures an unlikely pageant of Americana in his most recent book (The Shape of Things to Come), comprising 9/11, Bill Pullman's face, the punk band Pere Ubu, and other scattered signifiers.
