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Originally Posted by realtalk92
I disagree sugar foot.
Elvis took most of their potential intergrated audience because white people assumed that Elvis was doing something that was "new" while the black artists in the juke joints were already doing it.
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I think you're assuming that had Elvis not come along that the black musicians would have made the break through that he did instead. He got popular partly because he was able to get play on white radio stations that never would have played black artists. I imagine that he actually gave them an audience that they wouldn't have had otherwise.