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: : Dear forum-members! : : I’m writing an graduation-essay at the university of Trier, Germany. It is about “Elvis, Rock’n’Roll and Segregation in the USA”. I have some notions, and I would like to hear your opinion, please. Thank you very much for your answer! : : 1. Rock’n’Roll-music loosened the racial barriers in an important part of american society. : : 2. it did because R’n’R-music connected the black identity with positive items. : : 3. the important part of american society was the music-business, because it reached millions of people and affected them. : : 4. the establishment fought against r’n’r-music because it threatened their values and morals – and that means their power. The establishment were the middle-cl and political elites on a regional or local basis. : : 5. R’n’R music threatened their power because it provided space to discuss the issue of race-relations in american society, especially the South, and so it was able to question the status quo of race relations in general. (that’s what the etsablishment was scared of.) : : 6. So R’n’R-music became political in a pive sense, as itself wasn’t political at all but political issues were put upon it. Even the issues of youth delinquency and obscenity were atrributes connected to the Negroes. : : 7. but as the r’n’r-artists never formulated a political change, r’n’r didn’t result in a special social movement that protested against segregation. : : 8. so, finally, r’n’roll’s influence of the civil rights movement can not be measured in a statistic sense, but it’s influence was certainly there. Today, music is an important part of culture-politics (“rock against racism” etc.). : : Thank you for your help and ideas! : : Please replay to “ hola1005@compuserve.de “ : : MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! : : : : : : "A Manifesto for Memphis". : : : : A spectre is haunting this planet. : : : : For some unfathomable reason a certain section of the media are incapable of recognising the obvious. Although, dead and gone, Elvis Presley is here to stay. : : Having survived everything the and others could throw at him including some of his friends and in-law relatives, not to mention the likes of so-called learned authors such as Albert Goldman, Elvis remains the foremost icon of the age. More than a thousand books have been written about him, and they are still coming off the press as I type. : : The ambiguous treatment Elvis receives from the myopic Memphis establishment is not unlike the way the Dublin authorities looked upon James Joyce the Irish writer of one of the world's most famous -and in it's time, infamous! books. Nowadays Joyce is a tourist attraction with a statue and museums dedicated to him-a whole industry has grown around his name keeping many academics gainfully employed. His books are now openly sold in Dublin book-shops and Joycean memorabilia grows apace. American and other universities collect his every written word. Not bad for an Atheist from Ireland! : : : : Musicologists and academics alike are now researching Elvis's unprecedented effect on music -not since Beethoven has one man so completely dominated the imagination of the listening world. Universities now offer courses on Elvis. : : : : It would take a Dostoevskyian mind to unravel the real truth behind the incredible Elvis Presley story. Elvis was , "The Idiot", or "Dr Faust", to some and to many millions of others like me-just a very generous and loveable man who wanted to sing and entertain the world with his truly amazing voice-which can be heard to this day, and will be, many decades to come. : : : : My, "Elvis Presley International Airport, Memphis" campaign, continues. Please contact the relevant authorities in Memphis Tennessee and elsewhere-especially the media. : A posthumous degree in music for Elvis from Memphis and Mississippi Universities would be a nice gesture for the upcoming 25th Anniversary. : : : : Mauricepcolgan@eircom.net http://expage.com/elvisletters : : : See: "Elvis Presley- A Study in Music", by Robert Mathew-Walker, author of "Rachmaninoff-His Life and Times". Also, "In Search of Elvis", a collection of fascinating essays, edited by Dr Vernon Chadwick, a Mississippian scholar-he founded, "The International Conference on Elvis Presley"- the most publicised conference in history! : : : : Yes Elvis was a bridge for black music to cross into the mainstream-so was Frankie Laine!

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