Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom

by Peter Guralnick

Overview

"The best history of '60s soul music anyone has written . . . as important for what it says about America, class and race issues, and the '60s as for its outstanding musical insights. . . . A classic."--Robert Palmer, New York Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841952406
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	05/02/2002
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Soul Serenade		1	(20)
Prologue to Soul: Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and the Business of Music		21	(55)
King Solomon: The Throne in Exile		76	(21)
Beginnings: Stax		97	(36)
Otis Redding		133	(19)
Stax: The Golden Years		152	(25)
Fame and Muscle Shoals		177	(43)
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag		220	(27)
The Soul Clan		247	(30)
The Other Side of Memphis		277	(31)
Stax Goes to Europe/The Big O Comes Home: Triumph and Tragedy		308	(24)
Aretha Arrives		332	(21)
The Death of the Dream		353	(53)
Epilogue: Time Has Brought About a Change		395	(11)
General Bibliography		406	(9)
Selected Discorgraphy		415	(16)
Index		431

Editorial Reviews

"A definitive chronicle of one of the great creative periods in American pop history," said LJ's reviewer of this 1986 volume, which tracks the rise and fall of a collaboration of white and black musicians, songwriters, and singers from the 1950s to its peak and disintegration a decade later. (LJ 6/1/86) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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