Detroit 67 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detroit 67 write by Stuart Cosgrove. This book was released on 2016-10-06. Detroit 67 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First in the award-winning soul music trilogy—featuring Motown artists Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and others. Detroit 67 is “a dramatic account of twelve remarkable months in the Motor City” during the year that changed everything (Sunday Mail). It takes you on a turbulent 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 breakup of the Supremes, and the damaging clashes 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, rancor, and intense legal warfare as the complex threads that held Detroit together finally unraveled. “A whole-hearted evocation of people and places,” Detroit 67 is “a tale set at a fulcrum of American social and cultural history” (Independent).
Detroit '67
Detroit '67 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detroit '67 write by Dominique Morisseau. This book was released on 2013-02-26. Detroit '67 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's 1967 in Detroit. Motown music is getting the party started, and Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours joint. But when a mysterious woman finds her way into their lives, the siblings clash over more much more than the family business. As their pent-up feelings erupt, so does their city, and they find themselves caught in the middle of the '67 riots. Detroit '67 is presented in association with Classical Theatre of Harlem and the National Black Theatre. Detroit '67 was awarded the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History
Memphis 68
Memphis 68 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memphis 68 write by Stuart Cosgrove. This book was released on 2017-10-05. Memphis 68 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Detroit Project
The Detroit Project - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Detroit Project write by Dominique Morisseau. This book was released on 2018-08-07. The Detroit Project available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Three provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits at a cross-section—of race and policing, of labor and recession, of property ownership and gentrification—and comes alive in the characters and relationships that look toward complex, hopeful futures. With empathetic storytelling and an ear for the voices of her home community, Morisseau brings to life the soul of Detroit, past and present.
Detroit 1967
Detroit 1967 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detroit 1967 write by Joel Stone. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Detroit 1967 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers of Detroit history and urban studies will be drawn to and enlightened by these powerful essays.
