Before Elvis : the African American musicians who made the King
(2025)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW POP CULTURE
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 299 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780306833083, 0306833085 :, 0306833085, 9780306833083
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"[The author] examines the lives, music, legacies, and interactions with Elvis Presley of the four innovative Black artists who created a style that would come to be known as Rock 'n' Roll: Little Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, and ... Calvin Newborn"-- Flap page 1 of dust jacket