"Bochan ventured to Lomax that Elvis Presley stood as a great product of the Southern folk cultures." Bochan was as laughably off-point as Alan knew and Marsh wouldn't know. Presley had almost no interest in folk music, which is why he listened to successful and recent pro entertainers such as Wynonie Harris, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Hank Snow, and Dean Martin. Rock and roll music was invented by Wynonie and his professional-up-to-date-hip-black-music peers such as Wild Bill Moore (who played sax in Jazz At The Philharmonic, and made e.g. "Rock And Roll" in 1948), and Roy Brown (who said he didn't even listen to acoustic guitar blues, and made e.g. "Butcher Pete" in 1949).

Alan wanted folk music such as Sidney Stripling's (born about 32 years before Hank Snow and about 50 years before Little Richard) to be preserved. He was enormously hardworking with regard to folk music. Meanwhile, if Alan personally disliked, say, Monet, then so the heck what, and if Alan personally disliked rock and roll music, which first hit the black national charts in 1948 when Alan was 33, then also so the heck what.