In search of Elvis : music, race, art, religion / edited by Vernon Chadwick.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Chadwick, Vernon.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Elvis Presley (1st : 1995 : University of Mississippi)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977--Congresses.

Presley, Elvis.

Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 294 p : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997.

Summary:

The International Conference on Elvis Presley, convened at the University of Mississippi, 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's 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. 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.

Contents:

Country Elvis / Bill Malone

Rethinking Elvis and the rockabilly moment / Stephen Tucker

From Denmark to RCA : on the road with Elvis, Scotty, and Bill / Ernst Jørgensen

Elvis as anthology / Peter Nazareth

Elvis as Southerner / John Shelton Reed

Elvis Presley as redneck / Will Campbell

Elvis's Man Friday / Gene Smith

A revolutionary sexual persona : Elvis Presley and the white acquiescence of Black rhythms / Jon Michael Spencer

"It ain't no hound dog, maybe, but I believe it's some kinda critter anyway" : Elvis and southern self-taught art as storytelling / Roger Manley

In search of Elvis : an exhibition in a variety of media / Katherine Herndon

Everything Elvis / Joni Mabe

Why I'm the world's number one Elvis fan / Paul MacLeod

Generation E / Elvis MacLeod

In search of the young Elvis : confessions of a Dutch archivist / Ger Rijff

Dead Elvis as other Jesus / M. Gottdiener

Sermon on Alvis / Howard Finster

When Elvis died : enshrining a legend / Neal and Janice Gregory.

Notes:

Proceedings of the first annual International Conference on Elvis Presley held Aug. 6-11, 1995 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813329868

0813329876

OCLC:

35777391