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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462382103321

Autore

Cantor Louis

Titolo

Dewey and Elvis [[electronic resource] ] : the life and times of a rock 'n' roll deejay / / Louis Cantor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Ill., : University of Illinois Press, c2005

ISBN

1-283-13563-9

9786613135636

0-252-09073-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Music in American life

Disciplina

782.42166/092

B

Soggetti

Disc jockeys

Rock music - Tennessee - Memphis - History and criticism

Popular culture - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Programmed Chaos: Dewey Phillips on the Air""; ""2. Before the Storm: Dewey Arrives at the Five-and-Dime""; ""3. The White Brother on Beale Street""; ""4. The New Memphis Sound: The Birth of Black Programming""; ""5. ""What in the World Is That?"" Is This Guy Black or White?""; ""6. Racial Cross-Pollination: Black and White Together""; ""7. The Great Convergence: Pop Tuner' One-Stop""; ""8. The Phillips Boys: Soul (Better than Blood) Brothers""

""9. Red, Hot and Blue: The Hottest Cotton-Pickin' Thang in the Country""""10. Dewey and Elvis: The Synthesized Sound""; ""11. Dewey Introduces Elvis to the World""; ""12. The King and His Court Jester: Men-Children in the Promised Land""; ""13. ""Red Hot at First . . . Blue at the Very End""""; ""14. The Final Descent: ""If Dewey Couldn't be Number One, He Didn''t Wanna Be""""; ""15. ""Goodbye, Good People""""; ""16. The Legacy: The Next Generation and Beyond""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Illustrations follow page 86"";



""Illustrations follow page 158""