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- "All Shook Up: Elvis in American Culture"
University of Virginia course
- "Elvis Presley: Roots, Impacts, Legacies"
University of California, Davis
Explores the rise of Elvis Presley as a watershed in American cultural history.
- "Popular culture"
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
"In this course we will probe popular culture by examining Elvis as a subject that has been constructed and contested in a wide range of forms since the mid-1950's. We will approach Elvis discourses as ways both mass and elite audiences talk about themselves and their society through Elvis symbolism. By studying Presley discourses this way, the course will probe underlying anthropological problems that the subject Elvis variously masks, redefines, and subverts."
- "HISTORY A225: ELVIS AND POSTWAR AMERICA"
Indiana University Bloomington
"This course surveys changes in American society from World War II to the end of the 1950s. ... At the end of the course we will examine the most famous symbol of change and social disorder in the fifties: Elvis Presley. We will explore the manner in which Elvis represented broader changes that were taking place in American society after 1945. George Bailey ended up curbing his personal desires for the sake of family and community needs. Elvis struggled with those ideals; he tried to remain attached to his home and family but at the same time aggressively pursued a personal agenda of fame and self-fulfillment that took him away from older ideals. Bailey was a symbol from the 1940s that in the tension between community need and personal ambition the former would win out. Elvis told Americans in the 1950s that the latter was preeminent."
- "Elvis University"
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