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There is one question that stands at the heart of the CNN documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything, emerging as something of a mission statement for the film. And it's best articulated by Fredara Hadley, a ethnomusicologist at the Julliard School.
"What would it do to the American mythology of rock music," Hadley says, "to say that its pioneers were Black, queer people?"