The King and Them
In anticipation of Baz Luhrmann's biopic of Elvis Presley—creatively entitled Elvis—Kaleem Aftab muses over Presley's cultural appropriation of black music.
Luhrmann shows how Elvis turned songs – including Hound Dog, initially performed by Big Mama Thornton, and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's blues classic That's All Right – into Billboard chart hits.
Kaleem Aftab, Who was the real Elvis Presley?, BBC Culture
It would be the act of an arch pedant to point out that, while Hound Dog was, indeed, first performed by Big Mama Thornton, who was black, it was written by Leiber & Stoller, who weren't. So I won't.