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Greil Marcus (born 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. Marcus was born in San Francisco . He earned an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University Of California, Berkeley , where he also did graduate work in Political Science . 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 ''. His 1975 book ''Mystery Train'' re-defined the parameters of rock music criticism. The book places rock 'n'roll within the context of American cultural archetypes from '' Moby Dick '' to Jay Gatsby to Stagger Lee . Marcus's "recognition of the unities in the American imagination that already exist" inspired countless rock scribes. His next book, '''' (1989, developed from an earlier essay), 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 the Sex Pistols , the Dadaists , and medieval heretics. In 1991, Marcus published ''Dead Elvis'', a collection of writings about Elvis Presley , and in 1993 published ''Ranters and Crowd Pleasers'', an examination of post-punk political pop. In 1997, using old Dylan bootlegs as a starting point, Marcus dissected the American subconscious with ''Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes''. From 1983 to 1989, Marcus was on the Board of Directors for the National Book Critics Circle . He writes the column "Elephant Dancing" for ''Interview''. His latest book, ''The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy in the American Voice'', was recently published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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