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Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul
Stuart Cosgrove
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Description for Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Soul Trilogy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846973666
SKU
V9781846973666
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Stuart Cosgrove
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul
'Cosgrove weaves a compelling web of circumstance that maps a city struggling with the loss of its youth to the Vietnam War, the hard edge of the civil rights movement and ferocious inner-city rioting ... a whole-hearted evocation of people and places' - Independent