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Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path
to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is
training in the 5th Street Gym for his heavyweight title clash
against the formidable Sonny Liston. He is beginning to embrace the
ideas and attitudes of Black Power, and firebrand preacher Malcolm
X will soon become his spiritual adviser. Thus Cassius Clay will
become 'Cassius X' as he awaits his induction into the Nation of
Islam. Cassius also befriends the legendary soul singer Sam Cooke,
falls in love with soul singer Dee Dee Sharp and becomes a
remarkable witness to the first days of soul music. As with his
award-winning soul trilogy, Stuart Cosgrove's intensive research
and sweeping storytelling shines a new light on how black music lit
up the sixties against a backdrop of social and political turmoil -
and how Cassius Clay made his remarkable transformation into
Muhammad Ali.
Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path
to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is
training in the 5th Street Gym for his heavyweight title clash
against the formidable Sonny Liston. He is beginning to embrace the
ideas and attitudes of Black Power, and firebrand preacher Malcolm
X will soon become his spiritual adviser. Thus Cassius Clay will
become 'Cassius X' as he awaits his induction into the Nation of
Islam. Cassius also befriends the legendary soul singer Sam Cooke,
falls in love with soul singer Dee Dee Sharp and becomes a
remarkable witness to the first days of soul music. As with his
award-winning soul trilogy, Stuart Cosgrove's intensive research
and sweeping storytelling shines a new light on how black music lit
up the sixties against a backdrop of social and political turmoil -
and how Cassius Clay made his remarkable transformation into
Muhammad Ali.
This is the untold story of black music - its triumph over racism,
segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination
and political anxiety - told through the perspective of the most
powerful office in the world: from Louis Armstrong's spat with
President Eisenhower and Eartha Kitt's stormy encounter with Lady
Bird Johnson to James Brown's flirtation with Nixon, Reaganomics
and the 'Cop Killer' scandal. Moving, insightful and wide-ranging,
Hey America! charts the evolution of sixties soul from the margins
of American society to the mainstream, culminating in the rise of
urban hip-hop and the dramatic stand-off between Donald Trump and
the Black Lives Matter movement.
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.
Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed
everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long
journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in
1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial
disputes. It is the story of Motown, the break-up of The Supremes
and the damaging disputes at the heart of the most successful
African-American music label ever. Set against a backdrop of urban
riots, escalating war in Vietnam and police corruption, the book
weaves its way through a year when soul music came of age and the
underground counterculture flourished. LSD arrived in the city with
hallucinogenic power and local guitar band MC5 - self-styled holy
barbarians of rock - went to war with mainstream America. A summer
of street-level rebellion turned Detroit into one of the most
notorious cities on earth, known for its unique creativity, its
unpredictability and self-lacerating crime rates. The year 1967
ended in social meltdown, rancour and intense legal warfare as the
complex threads that held Detroit together finally unravelled.
Features the true story of DETROIT, now a major motion picture.
In 1969, among Harlem's Rabelaisian cast of characters are
bandleader King Curtis, soul singers Aretha Franklin and Donny
Hathaway, and drug peddler Jimmy 'Goldfinger' Terrell. In February
a raid on tenements across New York leads to the arrest of 21 Black
Panther party members and one of the most controversial trials of
the era. In the summer Harlem plays host to Black Woodstock and
concerts starring Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder and Nina
Simone. The world's most famous guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, a major
supporter of the Black Panthers, returns to Harlem in support of
their cause. By the end of the year Harlem is gripped by a heroin
pandemic and the death of a 12-year-old child sends shockwaves
through the USA, leaving Harlem stigmatised as an area ravaged by
crime, gangsters and a darkly vengeful drug problem.
First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre
movements intended their performances to be activist - perceiving
art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment - and an emancipatory
act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to
the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The
progress of the Workers' Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced
from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and
German development alongside which the parallel movements in the
United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are
reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical
controversies which accompanied them.
First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre
movements intended their performances to be activist - perceiving
art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment - and an emancipatory
act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to
the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The
progress of the Workers' Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced
from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and
German development alongside which the parallel movements in the
United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are
reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical
controversies which accompanied them.
Nothing will ever compare to the amphetamine rush of my young life
and the night I was nearly buggered by my girlfriend's uncle in the
Potteries...The opening line of Stuart Cosgrove's Young Soul Rebel
sets up a compelling and intimate story of northern soul, Britain's
most fascinating musical underground scene, and takes the reader on
a journey into the iconic clubs that made it famous - The Twisted
Wheel, The Torch, Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca and Cleethorpes
Pier - the bootleggers that made it infamous, the splits that
threatened to divide the scene, the great unknown records that
built its global reputation and the crate-digging collectors that
travelled to America to unearth unknown sounds.The book sweeps
across fifty years of British life and places the northern soul
scene in a social context - the rise of amphetamine culture, the
policing of youth culture, the north-south divide, the decline of
coastal Britain, the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry, the rise of
Thatcherism, the miners' strike, the rave scene and music in the
era of the world wide web.Books have been written about northern
soul before but never with the same erudition and passion. Young
Soul Rebel nails a scene that is as popular today as it was in its
heyday in the 1970s.
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