Rock n Roll

It was very interesting to see how African Americans and whites had very different experience when Rock n Roll emerged. For example was the shake rattle and roll song that had first emerged with Big Joe Turner. This song was seen as provacative and was gonna get very little airtime. When Bill Haley and the Comets took took the same song and cleaned up the lyrics to gurantee airtime. It shows how race played a big part in music being played on the radio. Do you think if these white artists did not do this would the songs have been as popular as they were?