About this title: Bob Dylan and the Band spent the summer of 1967 in the basement of Big Pink, the Band's house in West Saugerties, New York, recording a set of rough demos, sketches, goofs, and cover versions. By turns innovative, raw, whimsical, and eerily beautiful, the Basement Tapes, as they are known, became legendary among musicians and fans alike. Here, they become the touchstone for the celebrated music writer Greil Marcus's extended meditation on the nature of a part of American society that, he theorizes, runs parallel to the mainstream of popular culture. INVISIBLE REPUBLIC uncovers the ...
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Description: Like New. Hardcover w / dustjacket. Like new copy in vg dj; no internal markings; has lost its "Brand New" shine but no obvious defects. DJ nf; no priceclip; edgewear. No remainder mark. 91709. In sealed plastic protection. 1997. Hardcover w / dustjacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780330336239ISBN:0330336231
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Owl Books
Date Published: 1998-05-15
ISBN-13:9780805058420ISBN:0805058427
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P)
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780805058420ISBN:0805058427
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1997-05-23
ISBN-13:9780330336239ISBN:0330336231
Description: Used; Like New in VERY GOOD CONDITION jacket. STARTING WITH DYLAN'S HISTORIC ROCK & ROLL DEBUT AT THE 1965 NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL AND SUBSEQUENT TOURS OF THE US AND BRITAIN IN 1966. MARCUS RECREATES THE FEROCITY AND OUTRAGE PROVOKED BY DYLAN'S SUPPOSED BETRAYAL OF FOLK MUSIC AND FOLK VALUES AND MAKES IT CLEAR THAT THE BASEMENT TAPES SECRET MUSIC NEVER MEANT FOR RELEASE WERE DYLAN'S RESPONSE. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador, London
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780330336239ISBN:0330336231
Description: Fine in Fine- jacket. Hardcover A very handsome first edition with immaculate tight lightly sunned pages having no inscriptions set in immaculate coverboards. The priced jacket has no tears, nicks, rubs, scuffs and negligible edge wrinkles. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 23/05/1997
ISBN-13:9780330336239ISBN:0330336231
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 06/02/1998
ISBN-13:9780330336246ISBN:033033624X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 23/05/1997
ISBN-13:9780330336239ISBN:0330336231
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 06/02/1998
ISBN-13:9780330336246ISBN:033033624X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Henry Holt
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780805058420ISBN:0805058427
Description: Paperback. Used. Some Writing/Highlighting; Frayed Corners. SKU: 21402576 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780805058420 Used. Some Writing/Highlighting; Frayed Corners. SKU: 21402576 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Henry Holt
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780805058420ISBN:0805058427
Description: Paperback. Good Used. Minimal Writing. SKU: 21402585 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780805058420 Good Used. Minimal Writing. SKU: 21402585 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
"A whole book about one (double) record album. Of course, if there were ever an album that you could right so much about, The Basement Tapes would be it. Still, it seems that the author reads an awful lot into what Dylan and the band say was often spontaneous humor. That's the post modern approach, I guess."
"It's typical Marcus, with its leaning toward the epic/mythic side of things (and Marcus's related ability to write it so well that you get carried to that scope in your thinking, too). The section on Dock Boggs is esp. interesting."
"Typically wide-ranging riff from Marcus on the hidden currents of Appalachian folk music and how they found their way into the 1960s culture via Dylan."
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