WHEN THAT ROUGH GOD GOES RIDING: LISTENING TO VAN MORRISON

Book ID/图书代码： 14320010B34495

English Summary/英文概要： “Van Morrison,” says Greil Marcus, “remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.” When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was rereleased as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the Billboard charts, a first for any Van Morrison recording. The wild swings in the music, mirroring the swings in Morrison’s success and in people’s appreciation (or lack of it) of his music, make Van Morrison one of the most perplexing and mysterious figures in popular modern music, and a perfect subject for the wise and insightful scrutiny of Greil Marcus, one of America’s most dedicated cultural critics.
This book is Marcus’s quest to understand Van Morrison’s particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day. In these dislocations Marcus finds the singer on his own artistic quest precisely to reach some extreme musical threshold, the moments that are not enclosed by the will or the intention of the performer but which somehow emerge at the limits of the musician and his song.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 格瑞尔·玛可斯（Greil Marcus）说：“凡·莫里森（Van Morrison）是现代流行音乐史上无可匹敌的歌手。”《星周》（Astral Weeks）专辑发表于1968年，在当时，没有引起反响。但是，当其2009年以现场专辑重新发行的时候，获得了空前的好评，跃上了“公告牌”（ Billboard charts）首位，刷新了凡·莫里森的唱片记录。音乐节奏强烈、人气高升使得莫里森成为了当代流行音乐最出奇最神秘的人物，对美国最权威的文化批评家玛可斯来说，这是一个明智之选。
本书通过莫里斯1965年时至今日的长期职业生涯下的特殊时刻，帮助读者理解莫里斯的特殊天分。玛可斯在混乱中发现了歌手自己的艺术特色以直捣一些音乐领域。歌手意志和信仰不受动摇，之后，在音乐家和他的歌曲中等待未来的发展。(XJJ)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 格瑞尔·玛可斯（Greil Marcus）著有《预言》（The Shape of Things to Come）、《会滚的石头》（Like a Rolling Stone）、《又老又怪的美国》（The Old Weird America）；2009年他的《唇印》（Lipstick Traces）出版20周年纪念版。他和维纳·索洛（Werner Sollors）编辑了《美国文学新史》（A New Literary History of America），去年由哈佛大学出版社出版。自2000年以来，他先后在普林斯顿大学、伯克利大学、明尼苏达大学、美国新学院大学任教。他在《信徒》（The Believer）上开了一个专栏“十佳真生活”（Real Life Rock Top 10）。他目前住在伯克利。

Greil Marcus is the author of The Shape of Things to Come, Like a Rolling Stone, and The Old Weird America; a 20th anniversary edition of his book Lipstick Traces was published in 2009. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America, published last year by Harvard University Press. Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column “Real Life Rock Top 10” appears regularly in The Believer. He lives in Berkeley.

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