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Greil Marcus (born June 19, 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism. ==Biography== Greil Marcus was born Greil Gerstley in San Francisco, the only son of Greil Gerstley and Eleanor Gerstley, née Hyman. His father died in the Philippine typhoon that sank the USS ''Hull'', on which he was second-in-command, when his mother was three months pregnant. Admiral William Halsey had ordered the Third Fleet to sail into Typhoon Cobra "to see what they were made of", and, despite the crew's urging, Gerstley refused to disobey the order because there had never been a mutiny in the history of the US Navy, an incident that inspired the novel ''The Caine Mutiny''.〔 In 1948 Marcus's mother remarried, and Greil was adopted, taking his adopted father Gerald Marcus's surname.〔 He has several half-siblings. He earned an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also did graduate work in political science.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Una's Lectures – Greil Marcus )〕 He has been a rock critic and columnist for ''Rolling Stone'' (where he was the first reviews editor, at $30 a week) and other publications, including ''Creem'', ''The Village Voice'', and ''Artforum''. From 1983 to 1989, Marcus was on the board of directors for the National Book Critics Circle.〔 Since 1966 he has been married to Jenny Marcus, with whom he has children.〔 His 1975 book, ''Mystery Train'', was notable for placing rock and roll within the context of American cultural archetypes, from ''Moby-Dick'' to ''The Great Gatsby'' to Stagger Lee. Marcus's "recognition of the unities in the American imagination that already exist" inspired countless rock scribes. On August 30, 2011, ''TIME'' magazine published a list of what they consider the 100 best non-fiction books since 1923, when the magazine was first published and included "Mystery Train" on the list, one of only five dealing with culture, and the only one dealing on the subject of American music. Writing for ''The New York Times'' Dwight Garner said, "'Mystery Train' is among the few works of criticism that can move me to something close to tears. It reverberated in my young mind like the E major chord that ends the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life.”〔 Garner, Dwight (Just a Book? No, More Like a Trusty Companion ) ''New York Times''. September 4, 2015〕 His next book, ''Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century'' (1989), stretched his trademark riffing across a century of Western civilization. Positing punk rock as a transhistorical cultural phenomenon, Marcus examined philosophical connections between entities as diverse as medieval heretics, Dada, the Situationists, and the Sex Pistols. In 1991, Marcus published ''Dead Elvis'', a collection of writings about Elvis Presley, and in 1993 published ''Ranters and Crowd Pleasers'' (reissued as ''In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music''), an examination of post-punk political pop. In 1997, using old Bob Dylan bootlegs as a starting point, Marcus dissected the American subconscious with ''Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes''. He currently writes the "Elephant Dancing" column for ''Interview'', "Real Life Rock Top Ten" for ''The Believer'', and occasionally teaches graduate courses in American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.〔 He also teaches a lecture class at The New School called "The Old Weird America: Music as Democratic Speech – from the Commonplace Song to Bob Dylan".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Riggio Forum: Samuel R. Delany )〕 During the fall of 2008, Marcus held the Winton Chair in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, where he taught and lectured on the history of American pop culture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ias.umn.edu/2008/11/10/marcus-greil-2/ )〕 His next book, ''When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison'', was published in March 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Greil Marcus/When That Rough God Goes Riding )〕 It focuses on "Marcus's quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career".〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=publicaffairsbooks.com )〕 The title is derived from Morrison's 1997 song "Rough God Goes Riding". His most recent books are ''Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010'' (Public Affairs, 2010) and ''The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years'' (Public Affairs, 2011). A collection of his interviews edited by Joe Bonomo was published by University Press of Mississippi in 2012. The ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' in 2012 published a 20,000-word interview with Marcus about his life.〔("Simon Reynolds Interviews Greil Marcus" ), ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', April 27, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greil Marcus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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