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Author Cantor, Louis.

Title Dewey and Elvis : the Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay.

Publication Info. Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages).
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
Note Print version record.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Programmed Chaos: Dewey Phillips on the Air; 2. Before the Storm: Dewey Arrives at the Five-and-Dime; 3. The White Brother on Beale Street; 4. The New Memphis Sound: The Birth of Black Programming; 5. ""What in the World Is That?"" Is This Guy Black or White?; 6. Racial Cross-Pollination: Black and White Together; 7. The Great Convergence: Pop Tuner' One-Stop; 8. The Phillips Boys: Soul (Better than Blood) Brothers; 9. Red, Hot and Blue: The Hottest Cotton-Pickin' Thang in the Country.
10. Dewey and Elvis: The Synthesized Sound11. Dewey Introduces Elvis to the World; 12. The King and His Court Jester: Men-Children in the Promised Land; 13. ""Red Hot at First ... Blue at the Very End""; 14. The Final Descent: ""If Dewey Couldn't be Number One, He Didn''t Wanna Be""; 15. ""Goodbye, Good People""; 16. The Legacy: The Next Generation and Beyond; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations follow page 86; Illustrations follow page 158.
Subject Disc jockeys -- Biography.
Phillips, Dewey.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Popular culture -- United States.
Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977.
Rock music -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History and criticism.
Other Form: Print version: Cantor, Louis. Dewey and Elvis : The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay. Champaign : University of Illinois Press, ©2014 9780252029813
ISBN 9780252090738 (electronic book)
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