Lipstick Traces A Secret History of the 20th Century

"[This book is] a highly subjective account of rebellious gestures that recur from decade to decade, often in remarkably similar incarnations. Marcus doesn't belabor the division between high and low--he just ignores it, fluidly shifting from (sometimes obscure) source to source. Dada leads to punk leads to Police Academy, and Elvis movies prompt analyses of the Left Bank. Natch! That Marcus can kick off and end his exhaustive, but always clear-headed, cross-epochal trek with the Sex Pistols--and make it all cohere--is but one indication of how fully he meshes the academy and the gutter."Marcus, Greil is the author of 'Lipstick Traces A Secret History of the 20th Century', published 1990 under ISBN 9780674535817 and ISBN 0674535812.