Editing Elvis impersonator (section)

===Literature===
A number of books are available on the topic of Elvis tribute artists. One of the first books to document the phenomenon was, ''I Am Elvis: A Guide to Elvis Impersonators'' released by American Graphic Systems in 1991. More recent titles include photo essays, ''Living the Life'' by Patty Carroll and ''The King and I: A little Gallery of Elvis Impersonators'' by Kent Baker and Karen Pritkin.

Novelist [[William McCranor Henderson]] wrote about his attempts to learn the Elvis trade in, ''I, Elvis: Confessions of a Counterfeit King''.

A more scholarly examination of Elvis impersonation is, ''Impersonating Elvis'' by Leslie Rubinowski released in 1997. On "the thriving phenomenon of Elvis impersonators", see also Gilbert B. Rodman, ''Elvis After Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend'' (1996). In the Summer 1997 issue of The Oxford American magazine author Tom Graves wrote an acclaimed article, ''Natural Born Elvis'', about the first Elvis impersonator, Bill Haney, the only tribute artist Elvis himself ever went to see perform. The article has been published in the anthology [https://web.archive.org/web/20110127035148/http://www.uapress.com/titles/fa10/smirnoff-pb.html The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing] and the anthology ''Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers'' by Tom Graves.

There are also three "how to" guides, ''Be Elvis!'' by Rick Marino, a well-known tribute artist, released in 2000 by Sourcebooks and the more recent, ''The Elvis Impersonation Kit'' by Laura Lee, released in 2006 by Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers. Also recently{{when|date=April 2011}} released "Just Pretending" by Kurt Burrows is full of tips on how to talk, sing and dress like Elvis. It contains interviews with many famous Elvis impersonators, and also gives you five free Sunfly Karaoke backing tracks, allowing you to download your favorite Elvis tracks to perform to.

There are also several university studies, for instance, [[Eric Lott]]'s critical essay, "All the King's Men: Elvis Impersonators and White Working-Class Masculinity," published in Harry Stecopoulos and Michael Uebel, eds., ''Race and the Subject of Masculinities'' (Duke University Press, 1997). The author, professor of American Studies at the [[University of Virginia]], has also written a long piece on Elvis impersonators and the EPIIA (Elvis Presley Impersonators International Association) to be published in his next book. For this paper, he interviewed many impersonators and draws parallels with minstrelsy. "It is indeed one place minstrelsy ends up; where 19th-century white guys imitated what they thought of as slave culture and Elvis took from R & B performers, the impersonators copy the copy, if you will—it's minstrelsy once-removed."<ref>[http://www.gadflyonline.com/12-10-01/book-ericlott.html Gadfly Online: David McNair and Jayson Whitehead, "Love and Theft."]</ref> In her paper, "Women Who 'Do Elvis'", [[Case Western Reserve University]] researcher Francesca Brittan deals with female Elvis Presley impersonators and finds them to be "campy, cheeky, and often disturbingly convincing."<ref>Francesca Brittan, "Women Who 'Do Elvis': Authenticity, Masculinity and Masquerade", published in the ''Journal of Popular Music Studies'', Vol. 18, No. 2. (August 2006), pp.167–190.</ref> According to [[Marjorie Garber]]'s academic study, ''Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety'' (1992), Elvis impersonation is so insistently connected with femininity that it is "almost as if the word 'impersonator', in contemporary popular culture, can be modified ''either'' by 'female' ''or'' by 'Elvis.'"<ref>Marjorie Garber, ''Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety'' (1992), p.372. See also Matt Hills, ''Fan Cultures'' (2002), p.164.</ref>

In the 2011 novel ''Donations to Clarity'' by Noah Baird, one of the main characters — the town's sheriff — is an Elvis impersonator.<ref>{{cite web
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