Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession - Rilegato

Marcus, Greil

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0670838462 ISBN 13: 9780670838462

Casa editrice: Viking, 1992

Riassunto

Elvis Presley's entry into public life came with such force that his story was soon engraved into the cultural cliches that seemed to match it. From his birth in desperate rural poverty, to unprecedented international acclaim and then a slow, seemingly irresistable decline, images of Elvis have suggested an anarchy of possiblities. In this book the author assesses what it means to the culture that produced Elvis, that he has become a force. Here is how the meanings have multiplied since his death; the author illustrates and analyzes how themes of freedom, youth, age, tradition, novelty, guilt and the escape from guilt have been expressed through a phenomenon of such magnitude that it can be seen only in fragments. Greil Marcus is the author of "Mystery Train" and "Lipstick Traces".

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Greil Marcus is the author of Lipstick Traces, The Dustbin of History (both from Harvard) and The Shape of Things to Come, The Old, Weird America, Mystery Train, and other books.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Viking
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0670838462
• ISBN 13: 9780670838462
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256