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Greil Marcus

About

Greil Marcus is the author of Mystery Train, Dead Elvis, and The Shape of Things to Come. With Sean Wilentz he edited The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad, and with Werner Sollors, A New Literary History of America.

Articles

Guitar Drag

By Greil Marcus

"John Henry"

By Greil Marcus

JOHN HENRY AND FRIENDS

An OA playlist: There are thousands of versions of the song “John Henry,” and every one, Greil Marcus argues in “Guitar Drag,” is “an affirmation of the power of a single African American to...

By Greil Marcus