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Nov
20
Fri
Alverno Presents: Greil Marcus, Jon Langford & Sally Timms @ Wehr Hall
Nov 20 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm

greilWMSE presents, Alverno Presents:The History of Rock & Roll in Ten Songs

Unlike all previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history,
Greil Marcus’ The History of Rock and Roll in Ten Songs omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the over-explained and the obvious. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, and then proceeds to dramatize how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as the animating force of our lives. Greil Marcus is at the forefront of the first generation of rock critics, the baby boomers who around 1965 invented the genre from scratch, but none of his peers can rival his imposing body of work, including his four major books, Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces, Invisible Republic, and The Shape of Things to Come. Rock legends Jon Langford and Sally Timms (the Mekons) join Greil in the conversation and perform each of the “Ten Songs” (including To Know Him Is to Love Him, Money (That’s What I Want), This Magic Moment, and In The Still of The Night).