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Race, Rock, and Elvis (Music in American Life) [Paperback] : Elvis Presley Book |
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It was teenagers who bought Elvis Presley's records, in enormous numbers. And in Race, Rock, and Elvis (Music in American Life) [Paperback] Michael T. Bertrand's convincingly argues that the black-and-white character of the sound, as well as Elvis' own persona, helped to relax the rigid color line and thereby fed the fires of the civil rights movement... A sobering lesson for historians who scoff at popular culture (and the oral testimony that peppers the book) as trivia for the tenured.' -- Karal Ann Marling, American Historical Review 'Bertrand has managed to argue more cogently and with more evidential authority than any previous commentator that the music that Elvis Presley and his rockabilly cousins fashioned in the South in the 1950s represented a serious threat to various national and regional social conventions, particularly those relating to race, class, and gender'. -- Brian Ward.
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