From Greil Marcus’s Letter in the Ether:
On Saturday, March 7, I’ll be in conversation with Daveed Diggs for an event organized by the Bay Area Book Festival and held at the California Ballroom (1736 Franklin St., Oakland). Tickets are available here. From the Eventbrite page:
Join legendary music critic and cultural historian Greil Marcus in conversation with Tony and Grammy-award winning actor, writer, and producer Daveed Diggs for the 50th-anniversary celebration of Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ’n’ Roll Music.
First published in 1975, Mystery Train is a landmark work of music journalism that forever changed how we understand rock ’n’ roll—not as youth culture or counterculture, but as American culture itself.
Lauded by Bruce Springsteen as his #1 must-read music book and named one of TIME’s all-time best nonfiction books, Marcus’s genre-defining exploration of artists like Elvis Presley, the Band, Sly Stone, and Randy Newman still resonates across cultural thought today.
Marcus and Diggs, each a groundbreaking creative force in his own right, will revisit the book’s enduring legacy and discuss why music continues to define the American ethos.
GreilMarcus.net 