Invisible Republic (book)

Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (1997) is a book by music critic Greil Marcus (born 1945) about the creation and cultural importance of The Basement Tapes, a series of recordings made by Bob Dylan in 1967 in collaboration with the Hawks, who would subsequently become known as the Band.

In 2001, Picador reissued the book under the title The Old, Weird America, a term coined by Marcus to describe the often eerie country, blues, and folk music featured on the 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music. In his opinion, the sensibility of Anthology is reflected by the Basement Tapes recordings. The term has been revived via the musical genre called New Weird America.