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...recognized by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy award people) for achievement in every major category. Forget all measures of Elvis’ fame relative to his time. One could still write him off as a relic—a “white trash icon?? now relevant only in the minds of an increasingly geriatric fanbase. Let’s focus specifically on his enduring influence...
...Homespun, Ulrich studies what 11 objects from colonial everyday life have to say not only about their owners but also about the development of an American icon??the home-based rural economy in which virtuous women spun clothes and household linens while virtuous men tilled the soil. Each object—from an Indian basket dating from 1676 to an unfinished stocking of 1837—was specially chosen for its particular ability to flesh out the romanticized notion of “the age of homespun” that Horace Bushnell coined during the centennial celebration...