Elvis has meant many things to many people all over the world. He was gone from Rock’n’Roll to Hollywood Heartthrob, back to Las Vegas megastar. But if you look carefully Elvis was nothing than a mere boy raised in the south that was taught to love his mama and Jesus. These are the basic things that made him a great rock and roll legend. Elvis changed the face of rock and roll forever with his dance moves, sexuality, style of clothes, long hair, and different style of music that was no accepted by all Americans. Also his used of black music and black style made a lasting impression in history (Pratt 377).
Elvis introduced many different styles to the music world during the 1950s. The black population influenced many of
From his gyrating hips to his shaking body, Elvis’s must stunning quality was his sexuality. He was banned form performing and was shunned by mothers and fathers but he was adored by all his young fans that loved to see his hips swivel. According to Pratt Elvis is the perfect lover because his sexuality appeals to males and females. He had the “abandoned pleasure, illicit thrills, and back alley liaisons and, on the other hand, a quality of tenderness, vulnerability, and romantic emotion.” Pratt describes the sexuality of the south as like:
In the South where sex roles are bound up with the remnants of the chivalric “way of life,” open sexuality was allowable only in the “mysterious” lives of blacks, and permissible sexual traits i
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