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Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay
Author(s): Louis Cantor (Author)
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date: April 10, 2010
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0252077326
- ISBN-13: 9780252077326
Book Description
Louis Cantor illuminates Phillips’s role in turning a huge white audience on to previously forbidden race music. Phillips’s zeal for rhythm and blues legitimized the sound and set the stage for both Elvis’s subsequent success and the rock ‘n’ roll revolution of the 1950s. Using personal interviews, documentary sources, and oral history collections, Cantor presents a personal view of the disc jockey while restoring Phillips’s place as an essential figure in rock ‘n’ roll history.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006.
“I could write a book about this book!. . . .This book is a MUST READ for all fans of blues and Rock-n-Roll history. It’s my book of the year, beating out The Dylan Chronicles (a close second). Triple A+.”–Holler
“Cantor’s biography offers more than the story of an underappreciated disc jockey and his relationship to Elvis. Woven throughout the book is thoughtful, original, and illuminating research on the social history of race and how notions about racial identity and geographical space informed the ways in which the segregated white and black residents of Memphis interacted and were involved in one another’s musical cultures and social spheres.”–The Journal of Southern History
