Dancing in the street
Subtitle: Motown and the cultural politics of Detroit
By: Suzanne E. Smith.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Motown Record Corporation; African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Music; Music -- Social aspects -- Michigan -- Detroit; Civil rights movements -- Michigan -- Detroit
Genres: Music.
Description: "1960s Detroit was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr., dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas, facing off with city police. And through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown - as both musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenon - and of its intrinsic relationship to the politics and culture of Motor Town, USA."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-306) and index.