1. Elvis Presley in the American Culture
... . His prayerful plea places some blame on those worked behind the scene. Elvis's music symbolized the coming together of black and white culture into the mainstream. Country blended with black blues was a strain that some would come to call rock-a-billy. Something so powerful that it would go right to the center of the American popular culture. As the decade began ... , there were signs that young white kids were buying black rhythm and blues records; this was happening throughout the country, but no one sensed it as an ongoing trend until early 1951. (David Halberstam the fifties, p. 465...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate