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Mark Duffett
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May 2018
Elvis: Roots, Image, Comeback, Phenomenon
I am pleased to announce my new book on a unique music icon for Equinox Press, Elvis: Roots, Image, Comeback, Phenomenon (2020)...
Elvis Presley remains the single most important figure in twentieth century popular music. To many commentators, however, he has simply embodied the benefits and problems of uncritically embracing capitalism. By 2005 the ‘Memphis Flash’ sold over a billion records w Read more of this blog post »
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“As fandom scholars who are also music lovers, we have focused on the noon heat of passion, not the ways in which fandom can wax and wane. Even the precise reasons why any particular individual's fandom might end have rarely been examined and are poorly understood. Fandom always just seems there. Our relative blindness to its beginnings, endings and history is endemic to the field.”
― Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music
― Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music
“Epic, adult and widescreen in its ambitions, the beefed-up Comeback version of 'Let Yourself Go' sounded almost violent in its execution, with Elvis's raw and desperate vocals every match for the gargantuan, aggressive horns and percussion that dominated the mix. A big, sweaty, dusty monster of a take towered over the Culver City version, and perfectly captured the tumultuous social and political strife of its era in dissonant musical form. This new version of 'Let Yourself Go' was unfailingly magnificent in its vision.”
― Counting Down Elvis: His 100 Finest Songs
― Counting Down Elvis: His 100 Finest Songs
“The 'knowing field'... denotes a place that is both inside each of us, and something notionally shared by everyone else in the fan base.”
― Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture
― Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture
“Prison. Confinement. Incarceration. Up to three years of nothing but four walls for a victimless crime that maybe he didn't commit. That was the prospect facing - contradicting - Jim Morrison, main lyricist and lead singer of the Doors. Who could imagine that the man who lived so free could be reduced to a number in Florida's penal system?”
― We Want The World: Jim Morrison, The Living Theatre and the FBI
― We Want The World: Jim Morrison, The Living Theatre and the FBI
“The 'knowing field'... denotes a place that is both inside each of us, and something notionally shared by everyone else in the fan base.”
― Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture
― Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture
“Epic, adult and widescreen in its ambitions, the beefed-up Comeback version of 'Let Yourself Go' sounded almost violent in its execution, with Elvis's raw and desperate vocals every match for the gargantuan, aggressive horns and percussion that dominated the mix. A big, sweaty, dusty monster of a take towered over the Culver City version, and perfectly captured the tumultuous social and political strife of its era in dissonant musical form. This new version of 'Let Yourself Go' was unfailingly magnificent in its vision.”
― Counting Down Elvis: His 100 Finest Songs
― Counting Down Elvis: His 100 Finest Songs
“As fandom scholars who are also music lovers, we have focused on the noon heat of passion, not the ways in which fandom can wax and wane. Even the precise reasons why any particular individual's fandom might end have rarely been examined and are poorly understood. Fandom always just seems there. Our relative blindness to its beginnings, endings and history is endemic to the field.”
― Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music
― Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music
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