LISTENING TO THE DOORS, GREIL MARCUS

Throughout his life, Greil Marcus, one of the greatest living thinkers on popular culture, has listened to The Doors, the band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Jim Morrison, who, in just five years (1967-1971), recorded some of the greatest songs in rock history. With his radical and unmistakable style, Marcus transcends simply listening to the band's songs—not only covers of their most famous tracks, but also their live performances, where the band often reinvented their own repertoire—and offers one of the most intelligent and insightful perspectives on the cultural legacy of the 1960s.

In addition to the decisive moments in the band's history, Greil Marcus summons some key artistic manifestations and personalities from the American collective imagination in a torrential narrative that, above all, shuns the cliché of the 60s as the decade of peace, brotherly love and liberation, detecting its black holes and decisive moments that the music of The Doors revealed better than anyone.

LISTENING TO THE DOORS is also a masterclass in popular culture criticism and how literature and thought can address musical dissemination. To this end, Marcus unleashes exuberant prose whose purpose is not to revere music of the past as an object frozen in time, but quite the opposite: to show how some songs and the ideas they convey remain relevant and that, therefore, it is essential that we continue to champion and listen to them.

• Number of Pages: 216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Approximate dimensions: 14 x 2 x 21 cm