re: #131 BeenHereAwhile

Elvis

Elvis made African-American music acceptable to white folks, who might never have heard some of those songs otherwise on the radio. In the 1950s, there was segregation of the airwaves, too.

Then the 1960 and 1970s integrated the airwaves, and by the time we reached the 21st century, the airwaves were divided up into genre stations that never deviate from the corporate playlist. Segregation —> splinter-ation