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Uwolnić „soul”, wracając do Memphis

Publication date: 10.2023

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2023, Issue 3 (57) Muzyczne transgresje, inwersje, brikolaże. Kulturowe warianty muzyki popularnej, pp. 375 - 394

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.23.026.18584

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Rafał Szczerbakiewicz
Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Plac Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 5, Lublin, Poland
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Uwolnić „soul”, wracając do Memphis

Abstract

The transgressive potential of Elvis Presley’s music and stage persona remains an inadequately explored topic. He was an affective medium which catalysed a moral, racial and social revolution. He was the first beneficiary of emancipatory transformations of sexuality. The narrations and mythologies of rock culture did not problematise Elvis’s art and image transitions – the reasons for his escapes from media stereotypes. The most salient of the medially disjointed images is Elvis’s tenuous identification with the gender role of a male role model imposed upon him. Indeed, rock heroes are to embody the “macho” role. Meanwhile, the most interesting part of Elvis’s musical identity is precisely the ambiguous status of his masculinity in the 1950s and the “non-normativity” of his persona and music in 1960s–70s.

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Information: Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2023, Issue 3 (57) Muzyczne transgresje, inwersje, brikolaże. Kulturowe warianty muzyki popularnej, pp. 375 - 394

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Uwolnić „soul”, wracając do Memphis

English:

To free the “soul” back in Memphis

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3506-1669

Rafał Szczerbakiewicz
Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Plac Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 5, Lublin, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3506-1669 Orcid
All publications →

Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Plac Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 5, Lublin, Poland

Published at: 10.2023

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