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academic analysis of music icons
Amite County
Author_Vernon Chadwick
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Dwight Yoakam
Elvis Fans
Elvis Impersonation
Elvis Impersonator
Elvis Macleod
Elvis Records
Elvis Sightings
Elvis's Career
Elvis's Death
Elvis's Music
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Ernst JRgensen
Gene Smith
Ger Rijff
Glitter Collage
Hank Snow
Hillbilly Cat
Holly Springs
Hound Dog
Howard Finster
Jailhouse Rock
Janice Gregory
John Shelton Reed
Jon Michael Spencer
Joni Mabe
Katherine Herndon
Lonesome Tonight
Louisiana Hayride
Mark Gottdiener
Memphis Press Scimitar
Municipal Auditorium
music and social change
Na Neal
Paul Macleod
Peter Nazareth
popular music studies
race and representation
RCA Record
religious symbolism in music
rockabilly history
Roger Manley
Scotty Moore
southern cultural identity
Stephen Tucker
Tonight
Will Campbell
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780813329871
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jan 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The International Conference on Elvis Presley, convened at the University of Mississippi in August, transformed a rock and roll icon into a scholarly phenomenon. Educators, artists, and Elvis aficionados from across the world?plus over one hundred internationally based reporters?collected on Oxford, Mississippi, soil to analyze and celebrate Elvis' impact on the world stage.From this conference, which became front page New York Times Magazine news, springs this book, the best and brightest essays and artwork swirling around the cultural, social, political, and iconographic figure of Elvis Presley. Discussed within are such topics as Elvis as Southerner, Elvis as sign system, Elvis' multicultural audiences, Elvis and rockabilly, Elvis as redneck, the Elvis oeuvre, and Elvis' religious roots. Taken together, In Search of Elvis represents a daring and groundbreaking academic analysis. Richly illustrated with original Elvis-inspired artwork, this book captures the subterranean essence of one of the most phenomenal artists to have ever lived.
Vernon Chadwick is assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi.
