Book info card How The Web Was Woven: Essays In Celebration Of Elvis Presley, Heart Singer

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How The Web Was Woven: Essays In Celebration Of Elvis Presley, Heart Singer
Critchley, Peter (2024)

Independently published
paperback , 403 pages , 22.9 x 15.3 x 2.3 cm
ISBN-13: 979-8-3381-3662-1

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Language:	English
Description:	How the Web Was Woven is a collection of essays on Elvis Presley, underlining both his cultural and musical significance. The collection is book-ended by essays which stress Elvis' importance as a liberator, a democrat rather than a king, and essays which see Elvis' demise as the demise of am individualistic, narcissistic, and ultimately solipsistic and sterile culture. In between, there are essays which reassess overlooked or unappreciated parts of Elvis' career, the 'lost' songs of 1963 and 1964, the country rock phase of 1967 and 1968, the towering Nashville sessions of 1970 and 1971, the country soul of Stax '73 and, finally, the Graceland sessions of 1976. Through it all, the case is made for Elvis Presley the heart singer, the greatest that there has ever been, a man who rewrote the material according to his innate musical and emotional intelligence. Source: book back cover.
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