The Dustbin of HistoryHow much history can be communicated by pressure on a guitar string? Robert Palmer wondered in Deep Blues. Greil Marcus answers here: more than we will ever know. It is the history in the riff, in the movie or novel or photograph, in the actor's pose or critic's posturing in short, the history in cultural happenstance that Marcus reveals here, exposing along the way the distortions and denials that keep us oblivious if not immune to its lessons.