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Soon things were done to combat this new threat to Americans youth. Surprisingly, America was still very much segregated even with the new commonality between America's black and white youth. For one, white youth were color-blind when it came to their music...
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The only requirement was that it be likeable (Mabry). Secondly, white cover artists were willing and able to produce their own versions of popularly black songs (. This made it more acceptable to listen to black music. Sam Phillip, who discovered Elvis, said it best, ?"If I could find a white man who sings like a black man, I could make a fortune"' (Townsend)...
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