Outback Elvis : The Story of a Festival, Its Fans & a Town Called Parkes
John Connell is professor of geography at the University of Sydney. John Connell and Chris Gibson have been enthusiastically following and participating in the Parkes Elvis Festival since 2002, and have published a large body of work on music festivals in Australia. Chris Gibson is a professor of human geography at the University of Wollongong and a musician. Chris Gibson and John Connell co-authored books include Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia (2014), Festival Places (2011), Music and Tourism: On the Road Again (2005) and Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place (2003).