04357cam a2200397 4500 234017609 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781481555128 148155512X dd52f909-495a-48fa-8d6b-a1c6a768fc85 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9781982429485 599627 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Marcus, Greil. The Doors [Libby Audiobook] : A Lifetime of Listening to Five Wild Years. Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2011. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 131MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 131MB. HTML:<p>The best critic of popular culture in America considers the attraction of the Doors, which has endured despite the band's short life, sampling the lasting songs and legendary performances that made Jim Morrison and his band rock 'n' roll legends.</p> <p>A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock 'n' roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded, one could drive from here to there, changing from one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three, four of the Doors' songs in an hour—every hour. Whatever the demands in the music, they remained unsatisfied, in the largest sense unfinished, and absolutely alive. There have been many books on the Doors. This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the death cult of both Jim Morrison—and the era he was made to personify—and focus solely on the music. All these years later, it is a new story.</p>. Rock's top scholar, Greil Marcus, is a free-association master who effortlessly draws parallels between the most arcane cultural manifestations and their populist underpinnings. Narrator Ray Porter astutely grasps Marcus's snide qualities, delivering a performance resonant with a tone of righteous scorn--a trademark of the author's writing since his days at ROLLING STONE and NEW WEST. It's forceful material, and Porter embodies the weight of Marcus's convictions perfectly. Given the author's penchant for intellectualization, the Doors, with their heady brew of death visions and chaos theory, and their straddling of the cultural divide between the '60s and the contemporary world--not to mention singer Jim Morrison's cult appeal--prove to be the perfect fodder for the author's active imagination as well as Porter's dramatic mastery. J.S.H. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. "Nobody reads a song like Greil Marcus, whose prose is as passionate and omnivorous as the music he loves. Here he travels by way of Thomas Pynchon, pop art, and Charles Manson to bring the chaotic, majestic, death-haunted Doors back to doomed and haunting life.". Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize–winning author. "A relentlessly beautiful and insightful evaluation of the music of the Doors.". Publishers Weekly (starred review.) Nonfiction. Music. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:11. Porter, Ray. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=dd52f909-495a-48fa-8d6b-a1c6a768fc85 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/599627-TheDoors.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/599627-TheDoors.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DD52F909-495A-48FA-8D6B-A1C6A768FC85&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/599627-TheDoors.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/599627-TheDoors.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DD52F909-495A-48FA-8D6B-A1C6A768FC85&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)