Elvis Presley. Revenge South: Sebastian Danshen

The personality of Elvis Presley (1935-1977) deserves attention not only and not so much because he was and remains the most popular artist in the world pop culture. The representative of the lowest layers of society – the “white chopping”, he literally took off to the top of the star Olympus thanks to his completely new, unusual music, which at first shocked America, and then made him worship. Having combined the Blues’ lyricism in his work, the melting of the state of state, the tenderness and sentimentality of country, he created his music-a frantic, incendiary rock and roll, in which the entire musical culture of black and white America was embodied. Author, specialist in American culture, with the emotionality of the writer and the objective of the historian tells the history of the superstar, the white singer of the blues, susceptible to the culture of the Negro south, talent, which was cut by the wings of the musical industry; The story of a son, morally crippled by an excessive love of a mother, a man driven into a corner with his status with a sex symbol, in …

Author
Danzhen Sebastian
Editor
Smirnova E.V.
Translator
Kolodochkina Ekaterina Vladimirovna
Publisher
Young Guard, 2012
Series
The life of wonderful people