{"id":44,"date":"2006-09-20T22:37:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T03:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:42:13","slug":"lipstick-traces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0674535812\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0674535812&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=readingwith0a-20&#038;linkId=5c9380b75e157c950193915e0a6500ab\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71qZiPXAY8L._SL1152_-150x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71qZiPXAY8L._SL1152_-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71qZiPXAY8L._SL1152_-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71qZiPXAY8L._SL1152_-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71qZiPXAY8L._SL1152_.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><b>Greil Marcus (1989)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed rock reviewer\/author Marcus offers up a fascinating thesis: that modern consciousness is to a great extent shaped by events or documents &#8220;insignificant&#8221; of themselves but collectively very important indeed, perhaps even definitive. While spending much of its time on the impact of the Sex Pistols, this is not purely a &#8220;rock-music&#8221; book&#8211;along the way one encounters various ranters, Dadaists, nihilists, whatever&#8211;even Theodore Dreiser. If it lacks the rigor demanded of academic historiography, Marcus&#8217;s book is still great popular culture, and academic historians would do well to be interested. Meanwhile, the cross-referential treatment gives a seeming (at least) validity that sheer facts wouldn&#8217;t to the idea of a &#8220;secret history&#8221; that permeates unobtrusively and yields more meaning than many would like to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greil Marcus (1989) Acclaimed rock reviewer\/author Marcus offers up a fascinating thesis: that modern consciousness is to a great extent shaped by events or documents &#8220;insignificant&#8221; of themselves but collectively very important indeed, perhaps even definitive. While spending much of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,8,16,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-history","category-music","category-situationist","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}