Race, Rock, and Elvis
Michael T. Bertrand
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Did Elvis Presley's brand of rock 'n' roll help revise racial attitudes in postwar America? Michael T. Bertrand delves into this question and many others to investigate popular music's revolutionary influence on black-white relations in the South.
Youthful fans of rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and other black-inspired music often broke from their segregationist elders and ignored the color line. Not coincidentally, these same young white people--the southern branch of a national and commercialized youth culture--led a general relaxation of racist attitudes. Bertrand argues that African American music facilitated a new recognition of black people as fellow human beings. African ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252072703
SKU
V9780252072703
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About Michael T. Bertrand
Michael T. Bertrand is an associate professor of history at Tennessee State University.
Reviews for Race, Rock, and Elvis
Annual Book and Essay Award, Shelby County Historical Commission (Memphis, TN), 2001. "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 ... Read more