{"product_id":"stranded-rock-and-roll-for-a-desert-island-9780306815324","title":"Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island","description":"In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty other writers on rock -- including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis, Simon Frith, and Robert Christgau -- a question: What one rock and roll album would you take to a desert island? The resulting essays were collected in \u003ci\u003eStranded, \u003c\/i\u003e twenty passionate declarations that, appropriately, affirmed the solitary and obsessive activity that rock listening had become. Here are salutes, elegies, thank-you notes, and love letters to records such as the Rolling Stones' \u003ci\u003eBeggars Banquet\u003c\/i\u003e, the Ramones' \u003ci\u003eRocket to Russia, \u003c\/i\u003e Captain Beefheart's \u003ci\u003eTrout Mask Replica, Something Else By the Kinks, \u003c\/i\u003e and out-of-print classics by the Ronettes, Little Willie John, and Huey 'Piano' Smith; the whole is supplemented with Marcus's own invaluable annotated fifty-page discography, a \"Treasure Island\" of rock and roll. \u003ci\u003eStranded\u003c\/i\u003e remains a classic of rock and roll literature, and perhaps the best possible answer to the question: What one rock and roll \u003ci\u003ebook\u003c\/i\u003e would you take to a desert island?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreil Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBob Dylan by Greil Marcus, When that Rough God Goes Riding, The Shape of Things to Come, Mystery Train, Dead Elvis, In the Fascist Bathroom, Double Trouble, Like a Rolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Old Weird America\u003c\/i\u003e; a twentieth anniversary edition of his book \u003ci\u003eLipstick Traces\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2009. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With Werner Sollors he is the editor of \u003ci\u003eA New Literary History of America\u003c\/i\u003e, published last year by Harvard University Press. Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column \"Real Life Rock Top 10\" appears regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e. He has lectured at U Cal, Berkeley, The Whitney Museum of Art, and Princeton University. He lives in Berkeley.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50513992384786,"sku":"9780306815324","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_07084fcf-c9d4-49ea-bcbe-8bfde1b9fa6c.jpg?v=1730970109","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stranded-rock-and-roll-for-a-desert-island-9780306815324","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}