| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay. By Louis Cantor. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. x, 287 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02981-X.)
Dewey Phillips was a Memphis disc jockey (DJ) whose radio show, Red Hot and Blue, made him a major influence on the rise of rock 'n' roll music. He was known as Daddy-o Dewey and in picking hit records in one part of the South became the trend setter. Louis Cantor's study delves into the intricate relationship between this seemingly obscure DJ and the rise of race music in the white marketplace. The result is a scholarly, analytical dissection of how Dewey Phillips's radio show bridged the gap between the races and brought Sam Phillips's Sun Records and Elvis Presley into the cultural mainstream. The book also provides an intricate history of this disc jockey's relationship with small record labels, radio, the music industry, and the general public.	1
Serious studies of rock music are rare. Cantor's is the exception. In sixteen chapters, he traces how Dewey became "the Pied Piper of the new rhythm and blues hit parade" (p. 64).	. . .

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