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What role did the producer, disc jockey, distributor, agent, and media play in creating idols like Elvis?

2007-03-06 14:21:12 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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how do you describe the what? what? this question is to intellectual for me, i dont even know were to begin.

2007-03-06 14:32:04 · answer #1 · answered by who me? 5 · 0 0

YOU CAN'T STOP AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME!!!WHITE PERFORMERS DOING BLACK MUSIC HAD GONE THROUGH ALL OF THE POSSIBLE PERMUTATIONS CONCIEVABLE BLACK MEN PAINTED BLACK TO APPEAL TO WHITE AUDIENCES,STEPHEN FOSTER WRITING SONGS I PIGEON ENGLISH "BLACK PATOIS",THE MUMMERS IN PHILADELPHIA,WHITE MARDI GRAS CELEBRANTS "CORKING UP" WITH CHARCOAL TO LOOK BLACK AND EXPERIENCE THE PRIMITIVE CULTURE OF THE SLAVE'S WILD MUSICAL REVERIES AND STREET MARCHES,THE BLACK INDIANS OF NEW ORLEANS WHO DRESS UP LIKE THE INDIANS WHOSE TRIBES THEY USED TO RUNAWAY TO TO BE FREE!!THE INSTRUMENT VIRTUOSITY OF AFRICAN CULTURE'S ROOTS,MARVELOUS INSTRUMENTS FROM AFRICA WITH NEW AMERICAN INNOVATION!!EVEN THE ROMANS OF ANCIENT TIMES SAID"THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW COMING OUT OF AFRICA!!"FOR MANY GENERATIONS SOUTHERN ARISTOCRATS ENJOYED PRIVATELY THE SINGING AND MUSICIANSHIP OF THEIR ENSLAVED CHARGES!!YOU CAN'T SUPPRESS LONG A PEOPLE WITH A CULTURE AND A CULTURE OF PERSONAL PRIDE!!WHAT SOME EVEN PUBLICLY DECRY AS TAINTED "NIGRA MUSIC" THEY MORE OFTEN THAN NOT OVER THE YEARS CAME TO QUIET RESPECT AS A "REGIONAL EXPRESSION" AND AN ATTITUDE OF SHARED CULTURE HOWEVER STRAINED WAS GENERALLY THE RESULT ON MOST INDIVIDUALS NOT TOTALLY GIVEN OVER TO HATRED AND RACIAL DIVISION!!BLUES,JAZZ,DANCE MUSIC ,ROCK 'N' ROLL .ALL THROUGH AMERICA'S HISTORY
HAS IT'S ROOTS IN BLACK/AFRICAN MUSICAL EXPRESSION!!SO PEOPLE THAT LOVED ELVIS COULD STILL HATE AND UNABASEDLY DISPISE BLACKS IF SO DISPOSED;BUT THERE IS NO ARGUMENT POSSIBLE THAT THE"KING'S" GYRATIONS,MUSICAL AFFECTATIONS ,INTONATIONS,SOURCES,INFLUENCES ARE ALL BLACK AMERICAN IDIOM IN A WHITE WRAPPER!!THERE IS NO DENYING THAT THE GUY HAD TALENT IN ABUNDANCE,AND SKILL ENOUGH TO PULL ANY KIND OF SONG OFF!!A TRUE PERSONALITY FULL OF THUNDER RIGHT OUTTA TUPELO,MISSISSIPPI AYARD AWAY FROM BIG BILLY BROONZY,MUDDY WATERS,HOWLIN' WOLF,MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT,ELMORE JAMES,CHARLIE CHRISTAIN,AND THE WHOLE MISSISSIPPI DELTA BLUES PHENOMENON!!THERE ARE TO MANY BLACK NOTABLES TO MENTION BEHIND THE TRADITION THAT LED TO ELVIS'S SUCCESS!!A PERSON IS BORN A SUCCESS IT IS SOMETIMES THE PROVINCE OF THE COLONEL PARKER'S OF THIS WORLD TO DRAW EVERYONE'S ATTENTION TO THE FACT!!!ORGANIZATION AND TIMING ARE ALSO SO IMPORTANT!!HOW DO YOU HATE THE JEWS AND LOVE JESUS IN THE SAME BREATH????

2007-03-06 14:58:53 · answer #2 · answered by eldoradoreefgold 4 · 0 1

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