In Search Of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion
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 worldplus over one hundred internationally based reporterscollected  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. }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 worldplus over one hundred internationally based reporterscollected 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.
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In Search Of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion
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 worldplus over one hundred internationally based reporterscollected  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. }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 worldplus over one hundred internationally based reporterscollected 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.
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In Search Of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion

In Search Of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion

by Vernon Chadwick
In Search Of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion

In Search Of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion

by Vernon Chadwick

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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 worldplus over one hundred internationally based reporterscollected  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. }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 worldplus over one hundred internationally based reporterscollected 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780429979521
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/12/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Vernon Chadwick

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Music -- Country Elvis -- Rethinking Elvis and the Rockabilly Moment -- From Denmark to RCA -- Elvis as Anthology -- Race -- Elvis as Southerner -- Elvis Presley as Redneck -- Elvis's Man Friday -- A Revolutionary Sexual Persona -- Art -- “It Ain't No Hound Dog, Maybe, But I Believe It's Some Kinda Critter Anyway” -- In Search of Elvis -- Everything Elvis -- Why I'm the World's Number One Elvis Fan -- Generation E -- In Search of the Young Elvis -- Religion -- Dead Elvis as Other Jesus -- Sermon on Alvis -- Epilogue -- When Elvis Died
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