Pulling Elvis out of history

August 14, 2007 at 4:18 pm | In culture, history, music, people, race | Leave a Comment

I was struck by this column, from the New York Times this weekend, which looks at the way that Elvis Presley viewed race. In it, the author, Peter Guralnick (a Presley biographer), offers a convincing argument for an egalitarian Elvis.

I don’t have much perspective to offer other than this — when you listen to other music from that time period, by musicians white and black, and then you hear the King, it’s hard not to notice that a) he’s doing something that’s completely new; and b) that though different, his music draws heavily from both hillbilly music and blues.

– matt

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