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Rock'n'Roll's Golden Age, Elvis' Secret World
Author: Pasquale De Marco
language: en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date: 2025-04-27
In the annals of music history, few names shine as brightly as Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n' Roll. This comprehensive exploration of Elvis' life and career delves into the many facets of the man who changed the face of music forever. From his humble beginnings in Tupelo, Mississippi, to his meteoric rise to fame, Elvis' journey is a story of talent, ambition, and an unwavering passion for music. We trace his early influences, from the gospel and blues sounds of his childhood to the rhythm and blues and country music that shaped his unique style. We revisit the Sun Records era, where he recorded his first singles and ignited a musical revolution. We follow Elvis on his tours across the nation and witness the hysteria and adulation that greeted him wherever he went. We explore his Hollywood career, from his early films to his iconic soundtracks, and examine the impact he had on the film industry. We delve into his personal life, his relationships, his struggles, and the tragic events that ultimately led to his untimely death. Beyond his music and personal life, we examine Elvis' cultural impact. We explore his role in the birth of rock 'n' roll, his influence on the civil rights movement, and his enduring legacy as an American icon. We analyze his fashion sense, his unique style, and the lasting impact he had on popular culture. Through the pages of this book, we celebrate the life and music of Elvis Presley. We revisit his greatest hits, his iconic performances, and the moments that made him a legend. We explore the factors that contributed to his success, the challenges he faced, and the controversies that surrounded him. This is the definitive exploration of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n' Roll. It is a must-read for fans of music, popular culture, and American history. If you like this book, write a review on google books!
The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Christopher Knowles
language: en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date: 2010-10-01
Sex. Drugs. Loud music. Wild costumes. Dazzling light shows. These words can all describe a great rock concert or a hot dance club, but they were also part and parcel of the ancient cultural phenomenon known as the “Mystery religions.” In this book, author Christopher Knowles shows how the Mystery religions got a secular reincarnation when a new musical form called rock 'n' roll burst onto the scene. The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll traces the history of the Mysteries — their rise, their fall, and their survival through long centuries of repression. Knowles shows how the Mysteries prefigured subcultures as diverse as Santeria, Freemasonry, Mardi Gras and even the Holiness churches of the American frontier, and explains exactly how ancient rituals and music found their way to the New World. In the process, The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll traces the development of rock's most popular genres such as punk and heavy metal, and reveals how many of rock's most iconic artists play the same archetypal roles as the ancient gods. You'll see how many of the rituals and customs and even musical styles of our postmodern society have stunning ancient parallels. You'll meet history's first pop
The Secret Public
Rolling Stone [UK] — Best Music Books of the Year A monumental history of the gay influence on popular culture, from the rise of Little Richard to the collapse of disco in 1979: award-winning author Jon Savage takes us on a fast and captivating journey through the history of pop music as seen through the eyes of queer artists. Jon Savage, the author of the canonical England’s Dreaming, explodes new ground in this electrifying history of pop music from 1955 through 1979. In demonstrating that gay and lesbian artists were responsible for many of the greatest cultural breakthroughs in the last half of the twentieth century, he shows that it was their secretly encoded music—appealing to a closeted but greatly oppressed public—which led to the historic dismantling of discriminatory gay laws and the fusion of queer and straight culture. Fittingly, Savage’s kaleidoscopic work begins with the pomp-and-pompadour appearance of Little Richard, whose relentlessly driving sound, replete with gospel shrieks and sexual contortions, enthralled a generation of 1950s stultified white teenagers. Things soon went mainstream, as Elvis enthralled a nation with his seductive low moans and bump-and-grind twists, heavily derivative of Black music, while James Dean and Rock Hudson became the face of 1950s Hollywood; yet this explosion of queer expression remained covert and could not be accepted for what it was. While music, with supporting roles from cinema and fashion, became the key medium through which homosexuality could be clandestinely enacted, overt expressions of gay behavior were met with arrests and crackdowns. While hippies reveled in 1967’s “Summer of Love,” gays remained “harassed by police, demonized by the media and politicians, imprisoned simply for being who they were.” J. Edgar Hoover, himself a closeted homosexual, continued to spy on homosexual deviants; CBS’s Mike Wallace aired an invidious show about homosexuality; and the New York police continued to raid gay bars. Yet the music itself produced a cultural eruption that simply could not be stanched. While Bette Midler sang “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boys” to a Continental Baths audience of 600 gay men, all naked except for towels, David Bowie “blew the whole topic wide open” and “became the most totemic pop star of his generation.” Even though roadblocks remained, the gear-grinding crunch of the music signaled that the gay civil rights movement could no longer be suppressed. Ending the narrative with the sudden collapse of disco, The Secret Public asserts then that the genie was out of the bottle, that queer culture had finally entered the mainstream, producing a transcendent vision of pop culture that could never be marginalized again.