| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

Race, Rock, and Elvis. By Michael T. Bertrand. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xii, 327 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-252-02586-5.)

Michael T. Bertrand has managed to argue more cogently and with more evidential authority than any previous commentator that the music that Elvis Presley and his rockabilly cousins fashioned in the South in the 1950s represented a serious threat to various national and regional social conventions, particularly those relating to race, class, and gender. 1

Like previous critics, Bertrand notes that the admiration of young southern whites for black music challenged the ideas of racial separation at the heart of Jim Crow. Too good a historian to make simplistic connections between white love of black music and more progressive racial attitudes, Bertrand nonetheless maintains that these excursions across the color line were part of a much broader grid of economic, demographic, political, cultural, and generational transformations that helped destabilize southern segregation, leaving it vulnerable to concerted attack by the civil rights movement. . . .

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