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. Elvis - Other Stories to Tell, Mark Duffett
2. Elvis Presley and the Irrepressible Influence of Southern Evangelicalism, James Goff
3. Old Habits Die Hard - Elvis, or the Burden of a Southern Identity, Michael T. Bertrand
4. Mixing Up Elvis, Sean Redmond
5. Elvis, Race, and the Unity of Complimentary Genius, Cheryl S. Carr
6. Hypersensitive Youth and the Meanings of Elvis in 1950s Denmark, Bertel Nygaard and Rasmus Rosenørn
7. Elvis Outside the USA - A Dark Shadow in the Early Italian Cultural Cold War, Marilisa Merolla
8. An American Cultural Weapon? The Impact of Elvis in 1950s Cold War Europe, Mathias Haeussler
9. Gate People - Fan History Before Elvis Heritage at Graceland, Mark Duffett
10. The American Dream? Elvis Presley, William Eggleston and the "Lost" Photographs of Graceland, Johnny Hopkins
11. Elvis and Musical Spaces - What the King means to Nashville Tourism, Robert Fry
12. A Star is Imagined - The "Unproduction" of Elvis Presley's Film Career, Landon Palmer
13. Posthumous Representations of Elvis - From Cultural Icon to Transproperty, June M. Madeley and Daniel Downes
14. Operation Blue Suede Shoes - Black Lives Matter and the Meaning of Elvis in Contemporary Memphis, Amanda Nell Edgar
15. The Future of Elvis Studies, Mark Duffett
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