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... That person in the middle nineteen fifties was a man by the name of Elvis.
Elvis was a product of people’s defiance of every law or old tradition’s uncomfortable burden being placed on them in a time where convenience was starting to mesh with lifestyle, and not only in appliances. ... The larger society was forceful in the ways of keeping tradition that in turn only made Elvis and people that were on his side to want to counter balance that old fashioned force. Elvis seemed to start as a small snowball conjured by what people wanted to say but couldn’t say it. ... Elvis was shaped by everything that the larger society tried to do to make him stop, until the larger society was no longer large, but now smaller than the emergent.
The time when Elvis was being syndicated everywhere in the world was the time when Elvis was inside of the Dominant. ... Elvis being played on the radio twenty four hours a day seven days a week, watching numerous live performances on television was an ironic slap in the face of the past dominant culture because they created the mediums by which they are being overthrown!
Elvis changed the dominant by making the emergent ultimately trade places with the existing dominant and creating a totally new societal mindset or culture. When Elvis was seen on the Ed Sullivan Show in front of the whole world he was the mirror of how the new emergent culture was thinking during this time. ... When Elvis was on stage people wanted his actions to be the dominant, they wanted what he stood for to be the way in which everyone thought. ... Elvis once he became out in the open in American was first seen as some sort of teenaged commercialistic entity, that was created by the record producers to sell black music to the white community. What people finally realized, was that Elvis wanted no part of this commercialism of his name, all he wanted to do was play his music and dance and entertain everyone. ... The larger dominant culture finally had something on Elvis; they finally found something that people wouldn’t readily accept from a musician. ... Even though Elvis didn’t try to display these qualities, he was ignorant to what he as doing. Elvis started to be the victim on assumptions, just as any big celebrity has in the past. People look into Elvis the musician more than Elvis the person. ... The public symbolism of Elvis was something that was material for showing that there were other things in life to believe in, not just in what people grew up to learn about. Elvis was only the example of how people could change the way they dressed and how they presented themselves in public. ... Elvis showed them that the people should be the ones in control of their lives, not a guy that you will most likely never meet in you life that shows up on Television once a week at six o’clock at night after your family’ dinner.
I am sure if you asked Elvis if he meant to change the way people thought and to create a huge social revolution he would most definitely say no. ... Ironically, that this holds true also with that of Elvis. ...
One of Morrison’s favorite singers was Elvis. ...
When Elvis was young in his career and was still a growing part of the emergent trend he was an obvious rebel.
Approximate Word count = 2854
Approximate Pages = 11.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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