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Book explores the African Americans who made Elvis ‘the King’
Issued on the 90th anniversary of Elvis’s birth on Jan. 8, Preston Lauterbach’s “Before Elvis: The African Americans Who Made ...
How this Nashville-raised music exec champions Black artists across genres
Shannon Sanders, an African-American South Nashville native and award-winning BMI executive director of creative, reflects on ...
USA Today13d
New book 'Before Elvis' explores the music of the Black artists who influenced the King
The Virginia-based Lauterbach — a former Memphian and one-time staff writer for the Memphis Flyer — recently published ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press3d
A Q&A with author Preston Lauterbach, chronicler of the Black pioneers who created Elvis Presley’s music and style
"BEFORE ELVIS: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICIANS WHO MADE THE KING" by Preston Lauterbach (Grand Central, 320 pages, $30). In the 1990 hip-hop anthem "Fight the Power," Chuck D of Public Enemy ...
Indiana Daily Student5d
Jacobs School of Music presents ‘A Celebration of African American and African Diasporic Song’
The Jacobs School of Music voice department held the special performance, “A Celebration of African American and African ...
Tennessean6d
How this Nashville-raised music exec champions Black artists across genres
Shannon Sanders, a renowned music industry executive from Nashville, is celebrated with a "Living Legend" exhibit at the National Museum of African American Music. Sanders embodies the city's rich ...
Detroit Free Press13d
New book 'Before Elvis' explores the music of the Black artists who influenced the King
The Virginia-based Lauterbach — a former Memphian and one-time staff writer for the Memphis Flyer — recently published “Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King ...