![]() ![]() ![]() TV ratings for a decade, we've grown accustomed to the notion of singers routinely, even exclusively, performing other artists' songs and learned how to distinguish the mimics from the impersonators. In 1994, this distinction may have been somewhat novel-but in 2013, now that singing competition shows have dominated U.S. However, Davis also is quick to clarify that Elvis was no impersonator. In the essay reproduced below, Francis Davis, a jazz critic for The Village Voice and a contributing editor for The Atlantic, argues that Elvis was a mimic, emulating the styles of his favorite singers and skillfully weaving them together. In October 1994, The Atlantic published this tribute to Elvis. Simultaneously, it was country, blues, soul, and a little magic dash of something else entirely new. ![]() His sound defied the categories that we'd previously used to classify music. But here we are, 36 years later, still celebrating the man now regarded as the King of Rock and Roll. When Elvis first sauntered onto the American music scene, many wrote him off as a fleeting sensation: a 19-year-old who would sway his hips, make a few thousand teenage girls scream, then quickly sizzle out and disappear. Graduate School Can Have Terrible Effects on People's Mental Health Alia Wong ![]()
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