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Mercy, Mercy Me - The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye (Paperback, New Ed)
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Mercy, Mercy Me - The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
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The best-selling Motown artist of all time, Marvin Gaye defined the
hopes and shattered dreams of an entire generation. Twenty years
after his tragic death-he was shot by his father-his relevance
persists because of the indelible mark his outsized talent left on
American culture. A transcendent performer whose career spanned the
history of rhythm and blues, from doo-wop to the sultriest of soul
music, Gaye's artistic scope and emotional range set the soundtrack
for America's tumultuous coming of age in the 1970s. Michael Eric
Dyson's searching narrative illuminates Marvin Gaye's stellar
ascendance-from a black church in Washington, D.C., to the artistic
peak of What's Going On?-and charts his sobering personal decline.
Dyson draws from interviews with those closest to Gaye to paint an
intimate portrait of the tensions and themes that shaped
contemporary urban America: racism, drug abuse, economic adversity,
and the long legacy of hardship. Gaye's stormy relationships with
women, including duet partner Tammi Terrell and wives Anna Gordy
and Janis Hunter, are examined in light of the sexual revolution of
the 1960s and 1970s. Dyson also considers family violence in the
larger context of the African-American life and how that
heartbreaking legacy resulted in Gaye's murder. Mercy, Mercy, Me is
an unforgettable portrait of a beloved black genius whose art is
reflected in the dynamism of contemporary urban America.
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