Cultural Devices In Hound Dog
With a song like Hound Dog, it’s easy to see how the issues of cultural blending, borrowing, identification, and appropriation have very serious repercussions. Hound Dog was not Elvis Presley's; it was originally recorded four years earlier by Big Mama Thornton, a black woman from Alabama. However, the song itself received more attention when Elvis Presley "introduced" it to the world. While Big Mama Thornton died without ever receiving the recognition she deserved, Elvis Presley, a white man, is considered a legend and the "king" of rock n' roll. He is "the father" of rock ’n’ roll music although he didn’t invent it because he had white privilege. His race and physical characteristics allowed him to popularise a genre black Americans had been