Eric Weisbard

Hound Dog

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eric Weisbard uses Elvis Presley’s 1956 recording of Big Mama Thornton’s song “Hound Dog” to reflect on the history of rock music, race, commodification, and popular culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 178mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020103
• ISBN-10: 1478020105
• Artikelnr.: 66960836

Autorenporträt

Eric Weisbard is Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama and author of Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Intro  1
1. “Doggie in the Window” and the 1950s Pop Single  13
2. Dog Ditties  27
3. “Hound Dog,” Take One: Big Mama Thornton  35
4. Elvis Presley Belatedly Records “Hound Dog”  51
5. “Hound Dog” as Influence  65
6. Interpreting “Hound Dog”  81
7. The Whiteness of the Wail  93
Outro  113
Acknowledgments  117
Notes  119
Bibliography  129
Index  139