In class discussions, the topics of advertising someone based on their race has popped up in conversations multiple times. In our context, we\u2019ve only mentioned this in design of literal records. This article shows the same affect taking place or at least reinforcing that idea with a Teen Life magazine article written by Elvis Presley where he talks about his music. The preface to the article states, \u201cA young lad born in Mississippi and whose singular style of singing has skyrocketed him to fame in his own words tells the simple truths about how a star is born.\u201d<\/p>\n
The entire article from here on, tries to defend the \u201coriginal style\u201d that Elvis has made for himself. Elvis has become controversial in the past few years for his appropriation of music by black artists such as hound dog (originally recorded by Big Mama Thorton. He states in the article, \u201cA lot of people ask me where I got my singing style. Well, I didn\u2019t copy my style from anybody. I got nothing in common with Johnny Ray, except we both sing-if you want to call it singing\u201d (citation). As a modern audience, we can all agree this is not true at all.
\nThrough a simple search on YouTube, we can confirm that Elvis took music and musical styles from black artists such as Big Mama Thorton\u2019s original performance of the song \u201cHound Dog\u201d.<\/p>\n