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Dewey and Elvis the life and times of a rock 'n' roll deejay
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Title
Dewey and Elvis [electronic resource] : the life and times of a rock 'n' roll deejay / Louis Cantor.
ISBN
9780252090738
025202981X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252077326
Published
Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2005. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 287 p. :) ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Global Cultural Studies Supplement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 19, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-276) and index.
Contents
Programmed chaos : Dewey Phillips on the air
Before the storm : Dewey arrives at the five-and-dime
The white brother on Beale Street
The new Memphis sound : the birth of black programming
"What in the world is that?" Is this guy black or white?
Racial cross-pollination : black and white together
The great convergence : "pop" tunes' one-stop
The Phillips boys : soul (better than blood) brothers
"Red, hot, and blue" : the hottest cotton-pickin' thang' in the country
Dewey and Elvis : the synthesized sound
Dewey introduces Elvis to the world
The king and his court jester : men-children in the promised land
Red hot at first
blue at the very end
The final descent : "If Dewey couldn't be number one, he didn't wanna be."
"Goodbye, good people"
The legacy : the next generation and beyond.
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