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Book explores the African Americans who made Elvis ‘the King’
The notion that Elvis derived much of his musical, performative and sartorial style from African Americans is hardly new, and neither are the debates about whether this involved inspiration, borrowing or appropriation. Issued on the 90th anniversary of …