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Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
Greil Marcus
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Description for Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
Paperback. In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the American public consciousness - and subconscious. Num Pages: 288 pages, 54 halftones, 5 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 14. Weight in Grams: 448.
In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the American public consciousness - and the American subconscious. As he listens in on the public conversation that recreates Elvis after death, Marcus tracks the path of Presley's resurrection. He grafts together scattered fragments of the eclectic dialogue and shows what this strange obsession with a dead Elvis can tell us about America itself.
In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the American public consciousness - and the American subconscious. As he listens in on the public conversation that recreates Elvis after death, Marcus tracks the path of Presley's resurrection. He grafts together scattered fragments of the eclectic dialogue and shows what this strange obsession with a dead Elvis can tell us about America itself.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
447g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674194229
SKU
V9780674194229
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99-1
About Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus is the author of The Doors, Mystery Train, and other books.
Reviews for Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
Marcus shows that the rupture that was Elvis in 1954-57 lives on, below and above ground, glowing in grotesque and still dangerous half-life.
W.T. Lhamon, Jr. American Quarterly Marcus's rapt attention to what Elvis continues to mean is both transmitted and justified in a splendid piece of critical art ... a marvelous and profane book about a cultural symbol of cultural symbol-making.
David Foster Wallace Los Angeles Times Book Review The evidence Marcus has gathered suggests that Presley's posthumous appeal has to do with our ferocious ambivalence toward him, a blend of worship and revulsion, obeisance and revolutionary desire. Sympathetically despising what Presley became, everyone is now in on
not the joke, but the remaking of their world.
Eric Lott The Nation Go no further for the biggest thoughts about the biggest ever pop icon.
Glasgow Sunday Herald
W.T. Lhamon, Jr. American Quarterly Marcus's rapt attention to what Elvis continues to mean is both transmitted and justified in a splendid piece of critical art ... a marvelous and profane book about a cultural symbol of cultural symbol-making.
David Foster Wallace Los Angeles Times Book Review The evidence Marcus has gathered suggests that Presley's posthumous appeal has to do with our ferocious ambivalence toward him, a blend of worship and revulsion, obeisance and revolutionary desire. Sympathetically despising what Presley became, everyone is now in on
not the joke, but the remaking of their world.
Eric Lott The Nation Go no further for the biggest thoughts about the biggest ever pop icon.
Glasgow Sunday Herald