Rock & Roll

I found it very fascinating that Rock and Roll is truly a fusion of ideals used in both "black" music and "white" music. I also underestimated Elvis Presley's role in the evolution of Rock and Roll. He wasn't really revolutionary in the type of music he was creating/playing, but he was revolutionary with the images that one would generally associate with the music being sung. With the music Elvis was singing, one would generalize that it was being sung by a black male...but it wasn't. Elvis was truly a person who brought together the races by combining the music. However, I believe that he is given way too much credit. He is often credited with being the "first" to play this type of music when he really wasn't.