Nov 17, 2015: Greil Marcus delivers a brief acceptance speech at the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor-Virgil Thomson Awards for the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism for The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs. (See the list of all winners.)
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G.M. is a humble genius who deserves every award bestowed upon him.He’s long since proven that great writing ,serious scholarship,and Rock & Roll are not strange bedfellows …But the solemnity of this ceremony(or what was shown in this clip) was so at odds with the spirit of Rock that it reminded me of Dylan’s The Locust Sang.