... is nonetheless only vaguely specified, of 1950s rock & roll. Not only does the mixing of two previous genres tell us too little, but it also describes only a handful of significant 1950s rockers: preeminently Elvis, but not, for example, Little Richard or Chuck Berry. The point is that rock & roll has always...

..., 1916 The South Atlantic Quarterly 90:4, Fall 1991. Copyright © by Greil Marcus. This essay is an excerpt from Greil Marcus s book Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession, to be published by Doubleday in 1991. 710 Greil Marcus hurray, butter is everything! Goering in his Hamburg address: Brass...

... since World War II. To pick several examples, it is the story of how Arthur Crudup s That s All Right (a hit for Elvis Presley, 1956) be­ came Sugar Shack (Jimmy Gilmer, 1963) and, then, I Want to Hold Your Hand (the Beatles, 1964), or how 1960s rock became 1970s disco before its fundamental...

..., thereby demonstrating that there were some limited spaces of freedom available to Ameri­ cans living in that most proper decade. The early career of Elvis Presley is the perfect example of these new, culturally subversive af­ filiations. The son of hardscrabble working-class parents, steeped in a musical...

... autobiographical series Path to Stardom. A native of Way­ nesboro, Tennessee, who has named Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, and Elvis Presley as figures he admires, Collie chose to focus his life story for the TNN audience on his spiritual values...

... in which many lesbians relate to various popular icons of masculinity, including male movie stars, singers, and athletes. In fact, lesbians idolize certain male celebrities in significant enough numbers to create a rec­ ognizable canon of male lesbian icons. Such a list would doubtless include Elvis, James...

... 10082; Elvis Presley, Remembering, rca pdc 2 1037. A Boy Named Sue. Johnny Cash, The Essential Johnny Cash 1955 1983. Columbia C3T 47991. The Bristol Sessions. Various Artists. 2 vols. Country Music Founda­ tion cmf-oii-c. Brown Mountain Light. Tony Rice, Tony Rice Plays and Sings Blue­ grass...

... of his own funeral, though. It lacked the historic sweep and grandeur of the Martin Luther King, Jr., funeral, and the dramatic, emotional hysteria of the Elvis Presley funeral, but the Bryant funeral, in terms of sheer numbers, was probably unsurpassed in southern history. Atlanta news­ paper columnist...

..., eds., The History of Popular Culture (New York, 1968), pp. 669-71. 8 Staughton Lynd, The New Left, Annals, 382 (March 1969), 65. I955- The Beginning 431 The names of three men Le Corbusier, Elvis Presley, and Allen Ginsberg may be taken to symbolize what began to happen in 1955. If we can suspend...

... and jazz recordings for the most part aimed only at approximating live per­ formances, regarded as the significant event, many of rock s most important musicians, beginning with Elvis, made records before ever appearing in public. In fact, the performances that began rock & roll, Elvis s Sun recordings...

.... Montgomery and Nashville were focal points of a spasm of public mourning for an entertainer not seen again until the recent deaths of Elvis Presley and John Lennon. So ended the life of a man who would become one of the major legends of country music. Pictures From Life s Other Side is one of Williams s...

..., Beethoven: thirty-seven years after Elvis s first recordings, rock has its own traditions and its own treasured clas­ sics. Seeing Rock & Roll next to Symphonic Literature and Music Ap­ preciation in course listings must seem like a nightmare come true for more traditionally minded faculty members whose...

... majored in American Studies with a concentration in American popular music and wrote his senior thesis on the Beastie Boys. greil marcus is the author of Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock n Roll Music (1975), Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989), and Dead Elvis...

... the name Elvis is copyrighted and subject to legal action if used without permission.) Free speech isn t free, goes a bitter joke. Yet free speech is abro­ gated when scholarly interpretive arguments must, in effect, exclude the primary evidence on which they are based, or at least must re­ duce...

... was practicing a different, enduring, and ordinary con- nection with the ocean. Fishing is not a “protest,” Te WhānauApanui leader Rikirangi Gage radioed Orient Explorer from San Pietro, before police boarded San Pietro and charged skipper Elvis Teddy with endangering the Orient Explorer and resisting...

... passed. Looking back, the origins of Cuban rock can be traced to the end of the 1950s, above all to Havana nightclubs infested with Elvis Presley imitators, or at least with the Hispano-Mexican versions (Luis Aguile, for example, or Enrique Guz­ man). The list of artists is a long one, but it s enough...

... after dark. I tried to stay out of his way. Elvis Presley was singing ‘‘Blue Suede Shoes and I had a pair. Mickey Mantle had just come up to the New York Yankees and was hitting home...

... definitions of or theoretical assumptions about the boundaries between regions, races, or aesthetic regimes. My title embodies some of that complexity as it refers simultaneously to the careers of Elvis Presley, Bill Monroe, and Junior Parker. On 34 David Sanjek the flip side of Elvis s first Sun Records...

..., on a cultural level, the United States continued to penetrate Japan, though high-culture figures like Ernest Hemingway, Jackson Pollock, Eero Saarinen, and John Cage were not a major influence. American culture to the Japanese instead meant hamburgers, Cadillacs, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Mickey Mouse...

... with the official venues. Many of these sites simply left the Web, removed any proprietary content, or slyly 21 renamed themselves—the ‘‘Unofficial’’ Elvis home page, for instance. Fan...