Million Dollar Quartet: Read, Discuss, Experience

Professor Tommy Harrison leads a discussion of rock & roll music from the 50s and 60s. In preparation for the talk, check out a book about Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash or Carl Perkins from the reading list below. Attendees will receive a special discounted offer to attend the Saturday, August 12, 2 pm matinee performance of the Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet at Orlando Shakes – followed by a talkback with the cast. 

Lecturer: Professor Thomas Harrison, Associate Director, UCF School of Performing Arts Professor, Music Business and Technology.

Partnership with Orlando Shakes.

Books available for checkout at WPL:

The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll: The Illustrated Story of Sun Records and the 70 Recordings That Changed the World by Peter Guralnick and Colin Escott (2022) 

The Faith of Elvis: A Story Only a Brother Can Tell  by Billy Stanley (2022) 

Elvis in Vegas: The Heyday and Reinvention of the Los Vegas Show by Richard Zoglin (2019) 

Elvis Ignited: The Rise of an Icon in Florida by Bob Kealing (2017) 

Let’s Rock! : How 1950s America Created Elvis and the Rock & Roll Craze by Richard Aquila (2017) 

Me and a Guy Named Elvis by Jerry Schilling (2006) 

Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Rick Bragg (2014) 

Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash by Michael Foley (2021) 

Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn (2013)  

Cash: The Autobiography (2003) 

eBooks available though Libby:

The Birth of Rock 'n Roll: The Illustrated Story of Sun Records and the 7 by Peter Guralnick (2022)

Cash on Cash: Interviews and Encounters with Johnny Cash by Robert Bur (2022)

Elvis Presley: His Music & Movies by Raymond C. Wilson (2022)

Jerry Lee Lewis: The Biography of Rock n Roll Hall of Famer by Cindy J Adams (2022)

It Came From Memphis: Updated and Revised by Robert Gordon (2020)