![]() ![]() ![]() Predicted on the thesis that any given "groove" is indicative of the pressing of its time upon the wax of collective sensibility-and that even one-chord wonders and bored teen-agers must say something, however incoherent, about both their parents and the society that produced them-this well-illustrated book is about ".the pop magic in which the connection of certain social facts with certain sounds creates irresistible symbols of the transformation of social reality." Starting with the Sex Pistols and the 70's malaise they symbolized, Marcus traces a recta-musical social history that's informed both by Marxist aesthetics and political economy. The title here, taken from the 1962 hit lyrics "Lipstick traces/On a cigarette," aptly sums up Marcus' (Village Voice columnist Mystery Train, 1975) paradoxical project-which amounts to fashioning a text on the enduring aspects of the "hidden history" of modernism as revealed in that imprint of the ephemeral, pop music. ![]()
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