ABSTRACT

The death of Elvis Presley in August 1977 unveiled a field of contested interpretative and emotional positions regarding his public persona and its wider cultural implications. Closely studying the particular repercussions of such contestations in Denmark, using the totality of available source material, this article analyses a historically specific complex of temporal sediments and contested cultural norms and emotional expressions in connection with international celebrities and their fans and detractors. In more general terms, this study can contribute to the ongoing endeavours to historicise approaches to celebrities and the webs of significance surrounding their deaths.

摘要

猫王于 1977 年 8 月去世，揭开了关于他的公众形象及其更广泛的文化影响的有争议的解释和情感立场领域。本文利用现有的全部原始资料，仔细研究了丹麦此类争论的特殊影响，分析了与国际名人及其粉丝和批评者有关的时间沉积物和有争议的文化规范和情感表达的历史特定复合体。更一般地说，这项研究可以促进正在进行的努力，使名人的方法和围绕他们的死亡的重要网络历史化。