Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit

Suzanne E Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
January 1 2000
EAN: 9780674000636
ISBN: 0674000633
Synopsis: 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.