Inventing Elvis
Inventing Elvis Elvis Presley stands tall as perhaps the supreme icon of 20th-century U.S. culture. It shows how Elvis's rise was part of an emerging transnational youth culture whose political…
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Inventing Elvis
Elvis Presley stands tall as perhaps the supreme icon of 20th-century U.S. culture. It shows how Elvis's rise was part of an emerging transnational youth culture whose political impact was heavily conditioned by the Cold War. But he was perceived to be deeply un-American in his early years as his controversial adaptation of rhythm and blues music and gyrating on-stage performances sent shockwaves through Eisenhower's conservative America and far beyond.This book explores Elvis Presley's global transformation from a teenage rebel figure into one of the U.S.'s major pop-cultural embodiments from a historical perspective.
soldier in West Germany, where he acted as an informal ambassador for the so-called American way of life and was turned into a deeply patriotic figure almost overnight. As well as this, the book analyses Elvis's stint as G.I. Yet, it also suggests that Elvis's
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