Full Description
Decades after his passing, Elvis Presley remains one of popular music's greatest icons. He was among the most successful, influential, socially significant, and controversial performers of the twentieth century, with a celebrity so indelible that every recent American president has negotiated its orbit. While much of the coverage of Elvis' life concerns his personal history and musical ability, Rethinking Elvis pushes beyond the familiar to address Elvis' branding, historical and geographic reception, heritage, and fan phenomenon. Using Elvis' iconography as a point of departure, popular music scholars and historians contend with issues related to the performer's whiteness, Southern identity, and gender, among others, in turn offering myriad opportunities to pursue new approaches in the emergent field of Elvis studies.
Contents
1: Mark Duffett: Elvis: Other Stories to Tell
2: James Goff: Elvis Presley and the Irrepressible Influence of Southern Evangelicalism
3: Michael T. Bertrand: Old Habits Die Hard: Elvis, or the Burden of a Southern Identity
4: Sean Redmond: Mixing Up Elvis
5: Cheryl Slay Carr: Elvis, Race, and the Unity of Complementary Genius
6: Bertel Nygaard and Rasmus Rosenørn: Hypersensitive Youth and the Meanings of Elvis: Contested Emotions and Senses in 1950s Denmark
7: Marilisa Merolla: Elvis Outside the USA: A Dark Shadow in the Early Italian Cultural Cold War
8: Mathias Haeussler: An American Cultural Weapon? The Impact of Elvis in 1950s Cold War Europe
9: Mark Duffett: Gate People: Fan History Before Elvis Heritage at Graceland
10: Johnny Hopkins: The American Dream? Elvis Presley, William Eggleston, and the "Lost" Photographs of Graceland
11: Robert Fry: Elvis and Musical Spaces: What the King Means to Nashville Tourism
12: Landon Palmer: A Star Is Imagined: The "Unproduction" of Elvis Presley's Film Career
13: Dann Downes and June M. Madeley: Posthumous Representations of Elvis: From Cultural Icon to Transproperty
14: Amanda Nell Edgar: Operation Blue Suede Shoes: Black Lives Matter and the Meaning of Elvis in Contemporary Memphis
15: Mark Duffett: The Future of Elvis Studies
