Poison - Cry Tough

The most convincing universalization of the thought of the South is manifested in religion: more and more Americans adhered to the Christian fundamentalism of the evangelists from the Deep South, to eschatological ideas that incorporated the Confederate spirituality. The difference between the rural South and the oral tradition of the industrial and educated North has always been most pronounced in the church - the pillar of American life. During the service, the fiery speeches of the preachers, filled with superstitions, finally opposed themselves to the rational reading of the Bible, inherited from the pilgrim fathers. It was at that historical moment when sound and color took the baton of writing through the medium of records and television, Elvis Presley symbolized these changes like no other. He put his fervor of Pentecost at the service of the stage,playing the secular repertoire of blues and country with a frenzy received from the church hymns of the black and white poor.