Elvis in the country: Transforming place in rural Australia

Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 175-193

  Connell, J ^a   Gibson, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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