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Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Bloomsbury
November 2013
On Sale: November 12, 2013
480 pages ISBN: 1596915773 EAN: 9781596915770 Kindle: B00EME5MMG Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A
white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony
in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement.
Their success soon pits the siblings against each other, and
the brother abandons his sister for a visionary
African-American partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax
explodes as a national player until, Icarus-like, the
heights they achieve result in their tragic demise. They
fall, losing everything, and the sanctuary they created is
torn to the ground. A generation later, Stax is rebuilt
brick by brick and is once again transforming
disenfranchised youth into stellar young musicians.
Set in the world of 1960s and ‘70s soul music,
Respect Yourself is a character-driven story of
racial integration, and then of black power and economic
independence. It’s about music and musicians—Isaac Hayes,
Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, and Booker T. and the
M.G.’s, Stax’s interracial house band. It’s about a small
independent company’s struggle to survive in an increasingly
conglomerate-oriented world. And always at the center of the
story is Memphis, Tennessee, an explosive city struggling
through volatile years. Told by one of our leading music
chroniclers, Respect Yourself will be the book to own
about one of our most treasured cultural institutions and
the city that created it.
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