Mr. Vernon Chadwick

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  Bad Subjects: Elvis Healed?!?! A Report from His... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/1/2004    Last Visited: 6/17/2006  

  Parallels were drawn by Rodger and by Vernon Chadwick to J. Edgar Hoover-initiated F.B.I. files on Presley and other rock n' rollers in the United States.
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  Vernon Chadwick, Director of the Institute of the Living South that puts on the annual International Conference on Elvis Presley, concluded with a history of the event we had attended.
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  As an aside, the flashflood of international media attention for the first conference at the University of Mississippi where Chadwick taught in 1995 cost him his shot at tenure there. (The Unversity's refusal to grant Chadwick tenure, revealed Old Miss to be one more instance of "The Big House", white-columned respectability that methodically hides and squelches the true, roiling diversity of the region.) The event's main papers, oral presentations, and exhibited artworks were collected by Chadwick in In Search of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion (Westview Press, 1997).

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  "Elvis is one of the greatest, untapped resources for education we have in the South," says Dr. Vernon Chadwick, director of the conference.
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  According Chadwick, the conference will focus on "a sensitive topic often too painful for Elvis' loyal following to discuss."Chadwick has assembled psychologists, health-care professionals and educators to examine Presley's cycles of depression, addiction, violence, boredom and obesity.The conference will examine whether these dysfunctions are the symptoms of Presley's own problems or a sign of a change in society at large.
  
  "The period between 1957, when he bought Graceland, and 1977, when he died, was one of rapid modernization in the South that violently bent the social fabric of a belated, closed society," Chadwick says."Industrialization, urbanization, civil rights, the sexual revolution and the grown multicultural character of American life all contributed to these sweeping social changes that turned Elvis' southern mansion into a lonely outpost on a hill."
  
  To examine all this, Chadwick has assembled a variety of speakers, including:
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  The International Conference on Elvis Presley was founded in 1995 while Chadwick was at the University of Mississippi.
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  The conference is part of the Institute for the Living South, an independent research, teaching and arts institute founded by Chadwick.

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  Mantic eye | Are You Lonesome Tonight? - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/20/2007    Last Visited: 3/5/2009  

  TIME visits the Fourth Annual Conference On Elvis Presley with conference director Vernon Chadwick
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  And right now, we're joined by the director of the conference, Vernon Chadwick, director of the Institute for the Living South, and the author of the book "In Search of Elvis: Music Race, Art, Religion.Thanks, Mr. Chadwick for joining us this evening.
  
  I'm very happy to be here.
  
  Timehost: You're right in the middle of the conference ... can you tell us how the conference is going?
  
  Vernon Chadwick: It's going extremely well.
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  dmjon 79 asks: Mr. Chadwick, Elvis Presley's death was and still is somewhat of a mystery.
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  Vernon Chadwick: That's a very good question, and we do not have all the information for a definitive answer.
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  Vernon Chadwick: That's a good question.
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  Vernon Chadwick: No.Quite to the contrary.
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  Vernon Chadwick: Well, getting into the love life of people you never met is always tricky business.
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  Vernon Chadwick:That's a very good question and one that has been raised at our conference.
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  Vernon Chadwick: No, I don't think it is as general as that.
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  Vernon Chadwick: Yes, he did.
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  Vernon Chadwick: That's fair enough.
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  Vernon Chadwick: That is a very good question.
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  Vernon Chadwick: Well, in fact, members of his Memphis Mafia did walk out.
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  Vernon Chadwick: Well, this conference requires individuals who are committed to thinking about the real America. beyond all stereotypes and propaganda and disinformation.

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  Director Vernon Chadwick has made plans for the event to be free-of-charge this year. (601) 236-4693.
  
  GOSPEL FEST
  
  This all-day festival features gospel choirs and acoustic groups playing at Mud Island on August 21st.

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  Published on: 8/1/1999    Last Visited: 2/1/2006  

  Director Vernon Chadwick has made plans for the event to be free-of-charge this year. (601) 236-4693.

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  Robert James - Resume - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/2/2001    Last Visited: 8/22/2001  

  According to Vernon Chadwick , assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi and founding father of the Elvis conference , Elvis' contribution to American culture can be understood only through thoughtful examination of his persona , his films and his songs , which encompass the entire panorama of human experiences , subject matter and cultural orientation..Chadwick believes the Elvis phenomenon provides scholars a rich field for exploring an entire era of Southern culture..
  
  During the academic year , Chadwick teaches a course called Pop Blue Hawaii that compares themes in three novels of Herman Melville to themes in Elvis' three Hawaii movies.
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  Skeptics have called the Elvis conference a case of academic slumming , Chadwick says.And the fun-and-games image of the conference isn't helped any by the fact that the week's panelists will include Elvis' personal jewelry-maker , the self-styled World's Number 1 Elvis Fan , a couple of aged disc jockeys and Mexico's leading Elvis impersonator , El Vez.
  
  But Chadwick defends his brainchild by pointing out that participants are expecting to uncover important new insights into Elvis.This not a holiday for academics.A great deal of work will be done to examine desegregation and civil rights in the '50s , the spirit of the South , and American self-expression and self-invention , Chadwick says.

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  The Elvis Shop - Everything for the Elvis fan... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/2/2004    Last Visited: 7/29/2005  

  Dr Vernon Chadwick, founder of the famous, " International Conference on Elvis Presley", drove us to Tupelo from Oxford Mississippi, and back to Memphis Tennesse.

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  Vernon Chadwick

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  Published on: 12/22/2008    Last Visited: 12/22/2008  

  Vernon was a professor of English Literature at the U. of Miss. in nearby Oxford, MS: Faulkner's home town.
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  Name of the class? Melvis! (I'm not making this up.)

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  Vernon Chadwick (Elvis Aron Presley McCloud's
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  Vernon was a professor of English Literature at the U. of Miss. in nearby Oxford, MS: Faulkner's home town.

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