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This essay attempts to discuss how Elvis Presley placed himself in the rock and roll soundscape during and after the 1950s by delving into various changes that Baz Luhrman’s Elvis (2022) represented through the chronicle of Elvis' music and life. It also inquires into how the racial boundary between black and white could be blurred in the music acts of rock and roll. This inquiry can raise the issue of reconfiguring Elvis as an ambivalent persona which could be brought out between music and the entertainment business. Futhermore, this personal ambivalence of Elvis goes in parallel with the ambivalence of rock and roll music. While rock and roll led to the various achievements of hard rock band music during the 1970s, it could also survive commercially by constantly evoking the nostalgic sensibility from past traces of its glory.

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