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African Diaspora Material Culture Launching in Spring 2012, this new series will document the tangible and intangible heritage of African Americans in the hemisphere in both traditional and nascent fields of study. Series editor: Jessica Harris, Associate Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY.	Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special. Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All (read more...)