Outback Elvis

The Story of a Festival, Its Fans & a Town Called Parkes
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-74223-529-5
Verlag: University of New South Wales Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Where do thousands of people in wigs, jumpsuits and fake Priscilla eyelashes go each January to swelter in 42-degree heat as they celebrate The King?

Parkes, of course – 365 kilometres west of Sydney – for the annual Parkes Elvis Festival. But how, and why, did this sleepy town get all shook up by Elvis?

Written by two long-time fans of the festival, Outback Elvis introduces the local characters, the lookalikes, the impersonators and the tribute artists – and the town that made this big hunk o’ Elvis love possible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connell, John

Gibson, Chris

Über Autor(innen)

John Connell and Chris Gibson have been enthusiastically following and participating in the Parkes Elvis festival since 2002, and have published a large body of work on music festivals in Australia. Both are geographers: John Connell is professor of geography at the University of Sydney; Chris Gibson is a professor of human geography at the Universuity of Wollongong and a musician. Their co-authored books include Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia (2014), Festival Places (2011), Music and Tourism: On the Road Again (2005) and South Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place (2003).