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Understanding Elvis
Although the importance of Elvis Presley's Southern heritage has long been recognized, few have considered the complex connection between the performer's career and his Southern roots. This study investigates how that identity affected each stage of Presley's career. Elvis Presley's career can be divided into three phases, each of which is signified by a specific image. Each image is coded by a certain style of music, mode of dress, and arena of performance. The evolution from one career phase to another was instigated by a specific event and represented a deliberate calculation on the part of Presley's manager to attract a wider audience. The first stage spans the years 1956 through 1958, a...
Elvis for Dummies
The ultimate introduction to the life and works of the King Want to understand Elvis Presley? This friendly guide covers all phases of Elvis's career, from his musical influences as a teenager in Memphis and his first recordings to his days at Graceland and the mystery surrounding his death. You'll discover little-known details about his life, appreciate his contributions to music and film, and understand why his work still resonates with so many people today. Explore Elvis's musical roots — see how Elvis's childhood and his Southern background influenced the development of his sound Trace the beginnings of his storied career — be there as Elvis makes his first recordings for Sun Records...
The Outcast
The story of a nobody, interested in the Old Indians of British Columbia, Canada and his encounter with the drug runners and their connection to Columbia.
John English
The Sequel to The Singer and His Songs. Story of a British guitarist, who has no intentions of becoming a rockstar, but instead being a back-up guitarist to the stars. Fate has other ideas about his future.
Popular music on screen
Popular Music on Screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary developments in music television and video. Through detailed examination of films, television programs and popular music, together with analysis of the economic, technological and cultural determinants of their production and consumption, the book argues that popular music has been increasingly influenced by its visual economy. Though engaging with the debates that surround postmodernism, the book suggests that what most characterizes the relationship between popular music and the screen is a strong sense of continuity, expressed through institutional structures, representational strategies and the ideology of "entertainment."
Rock Star/Movie Star
From Elvis to Madonna, Rock Star/Movie Star explores why rock stars have been useful for movies, and why movies have been useful for rock stars. This in-depth history traverses how rock stars' screen performances have served motion picture and recording industries as well as offered new potentialities for movie stardom.
The New England Seduction
A young architect, after many years, returns home to visit his parents in Bar Harbor and unexpectedly meets the girl of his dreams. Then through a series of circumstances, he gets involved in a drug trafficking operation, that centers on the sleepy hollow inconspicuous small town of Bar Harbor, in Maine in the North of New England.
The Fashion Designer
The story of a young Irish girl, who immigrates to the USA, and her struggles to become an international Fashion Designer, with some help from A Movie Star and a West Coast Architect.
The Royal Conspiracy
This is a story of a young Australian artist studying art at the famous French Sorbonne University in Paris, France. On dark night while out for a walk, unexpectedly he is shocked to be an actual witness to a murder in progress. What does he do? What can he do? What does fate have him do?
The Architect
A young architect finds himself unexpectedly involved in murder, fraud, identity theft in the development industry in Los Angeles, California.
