create this sound. with elvis being here, bb king, ,ohnny cash, jerry lee lewis giving us the title of the birthplace of rock n roll. there is no other studio like it. ,> the creator of sun studio this was his vision, this studio. he opened it to record the blues music that was being played here in memphis. at a time when most other people in the area saw no value to that music, and he received a lot of criticism for recording the blues, but he felt this was a true form of music with feeling that people were not getting in most of pop radio at that time, its risk small seeds, , you know,y tame songs and arrangements. knew, particularly with younger people in america, were looking for something different. they wanted something that was, you know, something they could relate to more than that. that kind of use energy, that rock the kind of youth energy, that raw energy. that is what he was looking for, something different. .am open this place in 1950 memphis, in those days
a professor, and we are delighted to welcome catherine b katherine be nton-cohen. i will introduce her in a minute. let me do the preliminaries, acknowledging the president of the national history center. we have with us, the founding cofounding chair of this seminar a number of years ago, and joins us all the way from austin. let me say thank you to amanda does ther there, who heavy lifting in terms of getting us organized for this event, and ask all of you to and off your mobile phones other devices so we can listen without interruption. benton-cohen, i think that is it, next week, we have the empire of guns, the making of the revolution, and with that, over to eric. : thank you, christian, i am delighted to introduce our speaker this afternoon, katherine benton-cohen, an associate professor of history at georgetown university. she is the author of borderline she is the author of borderline americans, published by harvard university press in 2009, she has served as hist
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