Memphis 68 (eBook)

The Tragedy of Southern Soul

Stuart Cosgrove (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
256 Seiten
Polygon (Verlag)
978-0-85790-938-1 (ISBN)

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Winner of the Penderyn Music Book Prize
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.

Autor

Stuart Cosgrove originally from Perth, was a fanzine writer on the northern soul scene before joining the black music paper Echoes, as a staff writer. He became media editor with the NME and a feature writer for a range of newspapers and magazines. In 2005 he was named Broadcaster of the Year in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards and in 2012 he won numerous awards including a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award for Channel 4's coverage of the London Paralympics 2012. He is the author of Young Soul Rebels (Polygon, 2016).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2017
• Reihe/Serie: The Soul Trilogy
• Reihe/Serie: The The Soul Trilogy
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1950s • 1960s • 2018 • 67 • 68 • Al Green • American History • Aretha Franklin • Atlantic Records • Black History • Black lives matter • Black Music • BLM • blues musicians • Book • Channel 4 • Civil Rights • Civil Roghts Movement • Cosgrove • Cultural History • Detroit • Detroit 67 • Elvis Presley • Film • Harlem 69 • History of America • History of Black Music • I Have a Dream • Isaac Hayes • James Earl Ray • Johnny Cash • King • Luther • luther king • Martin • Martin Luther King • Memphis • Memphis 68 • music • Music History • NME • Otis Reading • Otis Redding • Penderyn • Penderyn Music Book Prize • plane crash • Poor People's Campaign • prize • Racism • Reverend King • social and civil upheaval • Social History • Soul • Soul Music • Soul Trilogy • Stax Records • Stuart • Stuart Cosgrove • Stuart Cosgrove Soul Trilogy • Tennessee • The Soul Trilogy • Trilogy • Volt Records • Winner • Young Soul Rebels
• ISBN-10: 0-85790-938-X / 085790938X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85790-938-1 / 9780857909381