Rethinking Elvis

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-19-009410-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 21 mm, Gewicht: 601 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duffett, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Duffett is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Chester. After receiving degrees from Oxford University and the University of British Columbia, he completed his doctorate on Elvis fandom at the University of Wales in 1999. Since then, Dr. Duffett has established himself as an international scholar with keynotes at conferences in Finland, Portugal, and La Nouvelle Sorbonne in Paris. He has written for The Guardian, and been quoted in Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and The New York Times. His books include Understanding Fandom (2013), Counting Down Elvis (2018), and Elvis: Roots, Image, Comeback, Phenomenon (2020).