Greil Marcus

Greil Marcus 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.

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Marcus was born in 1945 in San Francisco. He earned an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of California at 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 the Village Voice and Artforum. He currently writes the column Days Between Stations (named after the Steve Erickson novel) for Interview. From 1983 to 1989, Marcus was on the Board of Directors for the National Book Critics Circle. The Manic Street Preachers named their rarities collection album Lipstick Traces after his 1989 book.

Related Topics:
University of California at Berkeley - Political science - Rolling Stone - Village Voice - Artforum - Steve Erickson - National Book Critics Circle - Manic Street Preachers

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