Hound Dog : A Song by BigMama Thornton and Interpreted by Elvis Presley and Others

Name: Hound Dog
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9781478025085
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ISBN: 9781478025085

by Eric Weisbard

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Singles

ISBN-10 1478025085

ISBN-13 9781478025085

Publisher Duke University Press

Imprint Duke University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 19th, 2023

Print length 152 Pages

Weight 220 grams

Dimensions 17.70 x 40.70 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Blues Rock Blues Rock & Pop music Popular music Popular music

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Examines the racial, commercial, and cultural ramifications of Elvis’s appropriation of a Black woman’s anthem. He rethinks the history and influences of rock music in light of Rolling Stone's replacement of Presley’s “Hound Dog” with Thornton’s version in its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list.

Many listeners first heard "Hound Dog" when Elvis Presley''s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the song from Big Mama Thornton''s earlier recording, a giant but exclusively R&B hit. In Hound Dog Eric Weisbard examines the racial, commercial, and cultural ramifications of Elvis''s appropriation of a Black woman''s anthem. He rethinks the history and influences of rock music in light of Rolling Stone''s replacement of Presley''s "Hound Dog" with Thornton''s version in its 2021 "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. Taking readers from Presley and Thornton to Patti Page''s "Doggie in the Window," the Stooges'' "I Wanna Be Your Dog," and other dog ditties, Weisbard uses "Hound Dog" to reflect on one of rock''s fundamental dilemmas: the whiteness of the wail.

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