The Broadway musical "Memphis" may be strutting into the Kennedy Center's Opera House with the 2010 best musical Tony Award in its pocket, but it doesn't do much with the ancient terrain of whites getting hip to black music as rock and roll is born. It's a big ole comedy that opens with a 1950s country-fried DJ droning about the bleached ditty he just played, Whitey White and the White-Tones' 'Whiter Than You." Read …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31AM on June 15, 2012