In search of Elvis
Subtitle: music, race, art, religion
By: edited by Vernon Chadwick.
Contributors: Chadwick, Vernon.; International Conference on Elvis Presley (1st : 1995 : University of Mississippi)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977 -- Congresses
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proceedings of the first annual International Conference on Elvis Presley held Aug. 6-11, 1995 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Table of contents: title: Country Elvis / Bill Malone; title: Rethinking Elvis and the rockabilly moment / Stephen Tucker; title: From Denmark to RCA : on the road with Elvis, Scotty, and Bill / Ernst Jørgensen; title: Elvis as anthology / Peter Nazareth; title: Elvis as Southerner / John Shelton Reed; title: Elvis Presley as redneck / Will Campbell; title: Elvis's Man Friday / Gene Smith; title: A revolutionary sexual persona : Elvis Presley and the white acquiescence of Black rhythms / Jon Michael Spencer; title: "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; title: In search of Elvis : an exhibition in a variety of media / Katherine Herndon; title: Everything Elvis / Joni Mabe; title: Why I'm the world's number one Elvis fan / Paul MacLeod; title: Generation E / Elvis MacLeod; title: In search of the young Elvis : confessions of a Dutch archivist / Ger Rijff; title: Dead Elvis as other Jesus / M. Gottdiener; title: Sermon on Alvis / Howard Finster; title: When Elvis died : enshrining a legend / Neal and Janice Gregory.