Elvis

Elvis Elvis’s Influences Elvis has meant many things to many people all over the world. He was gone from Rock’n’Roll to Hollywood Heartthrob, back to Las Vegas megastar. But if you look carefully Elvis was nothing than a mere boy raised in the south that was taught to love his mama and Jesus. These are the basic things that made him a great rock and roll legend. Elvis changed the face of rock and roll forever with his dance moves, sexuality, style of clothes, long hair, and different style of music that was no accepted by all Americans. Also his used of black music and black style made a lasting impression in history (Pratt 377). Elvis introduced many different styles to the music world during the 1950s. The black population influenced many of these. Elvis did t sound fully white, were fore many radio stations we cautious of playing his music due to the “black-white rigidities of a segregated society” (Pratt 376). He used different types of black music to make his own. He was “the only artist to have the same record at number one on the pop, country, and rhythm and blues charts” (Schmidt 339). Many black Southerners music, black, sexuality, pratt, elvis, world, style, south, rock, elvis’s, different, white, way, things, society, sexual, sex, segregated, roll, quality, qualities, make, made, hips, due, country, because, back, according, young, vulnerability, vegas, using, unable, types, tribute, traits, time, through, thrills, tenderness, taught, swivel, success, styles, stunning, stereotypes, stations, stars, southerners