ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2011
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Muzika
Autor: Strani

LIPSTICK TRACES A SECRET HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Greil Marcus

Izdavač: Faber and Faber, 2011.
Meki povez, 482 stranice, format 16 x 3.5 x 23.5 cm


Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989) is a non-fiction book by American rock-music critic Greil Marcus that examines popular music and art as a social critique of Western culture.

The book covers 20th century avant-garde art movements like Dadaism, Lettrist International and Situationist International and their influence on late 20th century countercultures and The Sex Pistols and punk movement. `This book does not pretend to be a history of any of the movements it addresses,` the author writes (p. 414.) `The events of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964 `formed a standard against which I`ve judged the present and the past ever since . . . I never got over it . . . as an incomplete but indelible image of good public life`

A `soundtrack` to Lipstick Traces, compiling many of the songs referenced in the book, was released by Rough Trade Records in 1993.

The name `Lipstick Traces` can be traced to the 1962 Benny Spellman song “Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette)”

In 1999, the book was adapted into a stage production by Rude Mechanicals (a.k.a. Rude Mechs) of Austin, TX. The play has been performed all across the United States- including a stint Off-Broadway in 2001- and in Salzburg, Austria. In 2005, the play was invited to join the New York Public Library`s Dramatic Literature Archive.

The book also provided inspiration for the name of a compilation album of B-sides by the Welsh rock group Manic Street Preachers, entitled Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers).

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