<i>Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down!: How Elvis Shook Up Music, Me and Mom</i> (review)
2010; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 63; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/bcc.0.1507
ISSN1558-6766
Autores Tópico(s)Music History and Culture
ResumoReviewed by: Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down!: How Elvis Shook Up Music, Me and Mom Elizabeth Bush Stamaty, Mark Alan. Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down!: How Elvis Shook Up Music, Me and Mom; written and illus. by Mark Alan Stamaty. Knopf, 2010 ISBN 978-0-375-84685-4 $17.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 3–6 Stamaty takes readers back to his personal days of yore, 1955, when he received a radio for his eighth birthday. A valued but tame gift, it steadily churned out crooner standards to his and his parents’ delight. Until . . . “You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog” split the airwaves, sending Mark into instant fandom and Mom into aural distress. There was no stopping the force that was Elvis Presley, though, and when Mom broke down and allowed the gentle “Love Me Tender” into the house on a 45, it brought a “howling racket” (Mom’s term) along with it on the B side. Soon Mark was sporting a pompadour, styling his classmates’ hair, shmoozing his Elvisadoring teacher, and finally landing an Elvis-impersonating gig at the Cub Scout Blue and Gold Dinner. The winning of parental hearts and minds plays out here in comic-book format, with toothy, glassy-eyed figures variously showing Mark’s hip-swiveling enthusiasm or shrieking in exaggerated horror, while oversized hand-lettering crams the frames to ramp up the visual decibel level. Stamaty’s Elvis craze is evidently undiminished, and a photo montage that accompanies an afterword portrays him in “transition from my real self into Elvis.” Few adult memoirs of the “old days” meet with much crossover success, but this title should charm young readers like the shenanigans of a favorite goofy uncle at a holiday dinner. Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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