Louis Cantor

Dewey and Elvis

The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay

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Produktbeschreibung

Beginning in 1949, Dewey Phillips brought rock 'n' roll to the Memphis airwaves by playing Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and Muddy Waters on his nightly radio show Red, Hot and Blue. The mid-South's most popular white deejay, "Daddy-O-Dewey" was the first major disc jockey to play Elvis Presley (and subsequently to conduct the first live, on-air interview with Elvis). Using personal interviews, documentary sources, and the oral history collections at the Center for Southern Folklore and the University of Memphis, Louis Cantor presents a very personal view of the disc jockey while arguing for his place as an essential part of rock 'n' roll history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 144mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780252077326
• ISBN-10: 0252077326
• Artikelnr.: 28533125

Autorenporträt

Louis Cantor

Inhaltsangabe

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Programmed Chaos: Dewey Phillips on the Air
2. Before the Storm: Dewey Arrives at the Five-and-Dime
3. The White Brother on Beale Street
4. The New Memphis Sound: The Birth of Black Programming
5. "What in the World Is That?" Is This Guy Black or White?
Illustrations follow page 86
6. Racial Cross-Pollination: Black and White Together
7. The Great Convergence: Pop Tuner' One-Stop
8. The Phillips Boys: Soul (Better than Blood) Brothers
9. Red, Hot and Blue: The Hottest Cotton-Pickin' Thang in the Country
10. Dewey and Elvis: The Synthesized Sound
11. Dewey Introduces Elvis to the World
Illustrations follow page 158
12. The King and His Court Jester: Men-Children in the Promised Land
13. "Red Hot at First . . . Blue at the Very End"
14. The Final Descent: "If Dewey Couldn't be Number One, He Didn''t Wanna
Be"
15. "Goodbye, Good People"
16. The Legacy: The Next Generation and Beyond
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index