The Doors a lifetime of listening to five mean years

Summary: "The Doors: a lasting voice, or psychedelic trash? To Greil Marcus they can be both--in the same song. More Doors songs can be heard on the radio today, forty years after Jim Morrison's death, than those of almost any group of their era. Sparked by that fact, and with the deep focus of a critic engaged with his subject, Marcus both revisits a parade of great performances and explores why and how the Doors have endured with their spirit and menace intact. He makes plain that the Doors are at the heart of what Leslie Fiedler called 'the mythic life of their generation, ' and dramatizes how their music still shimmers with the dread that in their time hovered over a country convulsed by assassination and war, and over a city terrorized by the specter of the Manson murders--a dread that, in different forms, with different faces, is with us still"--Publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 9781586489465 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1586489461 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (210 p.) : ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Light my fire, 1967 -- LA. woman -- Mystery train -- The End, 1966 -- The Doors in the so-called Sixties -- When the music's over -- The crystal ship -- Soul kitchen -- Light my fire, the Ed Sullivan Show, 1967 -- The unknown soldier in 1968 -- Strange days -- People are strange -- My eyes have seen you -- Twentieth Century Fox -- End of the night -- Roadhouse blues -- Queen of the highway -- Take it as it comes -- The End, 1968 -- Light my fire, 1966/1970 -- "You're not going to be remembered."
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.