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Memphis 68 - The Tragedy of Southern Soul (Paperback)
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Memphis 68 - The Tragedy of Southern Soul (Paperback)
Series: The Soul Trilogy
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List price R312
Loot Price R287
Discovery Miles 2 870
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WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018 In the 1950s and
1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers
such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and
Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music. It
was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease with the modern world and
yet to adjust to the era of civil rights and racial integration.
Stax Records offered an escape from the turmoil of the real world
for many soul and blues musicians, with much of the music created
there becoming the soundtrack to the civil rights movements. The
book opens with the death of the city's most famous recording
artist, Otis Redding, who died in a plane crash in the final days
of 1967, and then follows the fortunes of Redding's label,
Stax/Volt Records, as its fortunes fall and rise again. But, as the
tense year unfolds, the city dominates world headlines for the
worst of reasons: the assassination of civil rights leader Martin
Luther King.
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