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Title: Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit by Suzanne E. Smith ISBN: 0-674-00546-5 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book; Great City; A Time Not To Be Forgotten
Comment: Suzanne Smith deserves tremendous credit for transforming her love of Detroit, her home; her love of Motown, the soul music of her generation; and her love of historical analysis, the career she has chosen, into a remarkably readable and indeed breathtaking review of a city, a time, and a musical genre that is too often neglected. Sure, the most celebrated heirs of the Motown legend, the Jackson family, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, achieved fame and fortune. But Barry Gordy's Motown -- the Motown of European-Americans like Suzanne Smith, and the Motown of all of Detoit's people of color, needs to be remembered often and with affection. That Suzanne Smith can tell the story of Detroit in the turbulent 1960s with such style and grace, is a testament to her skill as an analyst of culture and her skill as one of the next generation of honored historians. Presently at George Mason University in Virginia, look for Professor Smith to soon teach from a tenured chair in Ann Arbor, Michigan; New Haven, Connecticut; or Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Rating: 5
Summary: Come And Get These Memories!
Comment: This is Motor City history from the inside outward, and if you know the REAl city, from the Graystone Ballroom to the Chit Chat Club to WJLB and the City Wide Dry Cleaners, then you KNOW what I'm gettin into. A beautiful job of history that moves like the music of Hitsville, U.S.A. did. You go, girl!
Rating: 5
Summary: Incisive Social History
Comment: An incisive combination of music journalism and pathbreaking social history about the city, people and circumstances that gave rise to, participated in, supported,and finally watched the physical exit from the Motor City in the early '70s of Motown Records. A vivid and unforgettable study of the roots of an important facet of American cultural history. Excellent.
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Title: The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue ISBN: 0691058881 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 13 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Detroit, I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Classics Series) by Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin, Manning Marable ISBN: 0896085716 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Hollywood's High Noon: Moviemaking & Society Before Television (American Moment) by Thomas Cripps ISBN: 0801853168 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Motown : The Golden Years: The Stars and Music That Shaped a Generation by Bill Dahl, Weldon A. McDougal III ISBN: 0873492862 Publisher: Krause Publications Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Motown : Music, Money, Sex, and Power by Gerald L. Posner ISBN: 0375500626 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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