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- Elvis Presley: the Official Site
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- Elvis News
(Elvisnews.com)
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(Elvis World Japan)
A wealth of information here.
- Presleys in the Press
Includes:
- Elvis News
(Elvis Information Network)
- Elvis News
(Elvis Australia)
- Elvis Presley News
(topix.net)
- Artists: News headlines - Elvis Presley
(cmt.com)
over 80 news stories published since January 20 1998
- The Complete Elvis Presley - Music, News, Videos, Photos, CD, Songs, Albums, Reviews
(rollingstone.com)
- Elvis Presley News
by Lea Frydman
- Elvis Presley bi-weekly column
(Suite101)
- This and That about Elvis: Latest news, Record Releases, etc.
(The Elvis Presley File)
CD, DVD and other music releases world wide
- Irish Paper Articles
(Irish Elvis Presley Fan Club)
Elvis-related newspaper and magazine articles published in Ireland.
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"Your guide to everything Memphis".
Memphis
A beautiful sound-and-vision site on the Elvicities host server, still under construction.
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| music appropriation |
- All Shook Up: The Cultural Location of Musical Appropriation (online link gone)
(By Theodore Gracyk)
Applies Foucault's proposal that a text has no single author because each text is made of multiple texts to the question of cultural appropriation in the realm of popular music. ... "Musicians always alter the traditions they appropriate, for every musician is always engaged in the cultural project of the redeployment and reformulation of meaning. A musical tradition is not a site that a
musician visits as a tourist, bringing along cultural baggage and taking away plundered treasure. Even when the music is composed by constructing it upon samples of earlier music, musical performance and composition involves participation in a musical tradition."
- Visibility, appropriation and resistance
(By VIRINDER S. KALRA and JOHN HUTNYK)
Explores the issue of appropriation as it applies to the big stars of white pop, but also looks at those South Asian artists who have entered into some degree of engagement with what is politely called the mainstream. Also considers what is not appropriated or what is not considered digestible by the cannibalizing appetite of consumer capitalism, in its particular guise of music multinationals.
- Cultural appropriation: Who's music is it anyway?
(blogcritics.org)
Balanced discussion of cultural appropriation. Once a musical form is created, it diffuses geographically and culturally. It gets "diluted, augmented, twisted, parodied, improved, ruined, hybridized, merged." ... "You can't keep music in a bottle." The real point is that most cultural appropriation has been one-sided -- the white and powerful taking from the colored and powerless. Furthermore, the appropriators have sometimes expressed scorn for the people whose culture they were taking their art from (eg Elvis Costello). We must ensure opportunities are equally available to artists of color. Only when equality in treatment occurs will cultural appropriation no longer be an issue.
- Elvis Presley was never a thief
(The Guardian, Letters to the Editor, August 19 2002)
- No Rhythm, No Blues: Must White Guys Always Finish Last?
By Gary North
(lewrockwell.com)
Discusses the music appropriation controversy, particularly, The Guardian's article (August, 2002) accusing Elvis Presley of stealing black music in the form of "Hound Dog" from Big Mama Thornton - but "Hound Dog" was written by Leiber and Stoller, who were white and Jewish. Johnny Otis, who was instrumental in launching Big Mama Thornton's career, had a Greek background. Musical influences go both ways. "Music is a universal language, like mathematics and money. It knows few borders."
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| music therapy |
- DR. ELVIS PRESLEY ? Music Plays Major Role in One Mans Recovery
(PR Web press release)
After suffering from a stroke at the age of eighteen and enduring the hardships of recovery, motivational speaker James Bradley wanted to be an inspiration for those thinking of giving up. James recalls his experiences in his new book "Elvis Was My Speech Therapist"{ISBN#1-55393-046-1 Trafford Publising -1-888-232-4444 #14.95}. Bradley shows how music can be used as speech therapy.
- Therapeutic Applications of Rock 'n' Roll
(University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire)
Through research, it is concluded that rock 'n' roll lyrics are effective in breaking down verbal defenses and eliciting honest sharing of emotions by music therapy clients. This seems to be especially true when working with psychiatric and jail populations.
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- Elvis as myth
(Elvis: Man, Myth and Multimedia)
Elvis is the embodiment of the American Dream.
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