Detroit *67 : the year that changed soul / Stuart Cosgrove.

• January : snow -- February : crime -- March : home -- April : love -- May : strike -- June : war -- July : riot -- August : ordeal -- September : surveillance -- October : collapse -- November : law -- December : flight.

• Soul music, street crime & social rebellion. Detroit *67 is the story of the city of Detroit in the year that changed everything. Over a dramatic 12-month period in 1967 the Motor City was torn apart by personal, political and inter-racial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the breakup of The Supremes and the implosion 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--the 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. 1967 ended in social meltdown, personal bitterness and intense legal warfare as the complex threads that held Detroit together finally unravelled. Detroit *67 is the story of the year that changed soul.--Back cover. 

Ämnesord

Soul music  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

African American musicians.  (LCSH)

African Americans  -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Politics and culture  -- United States -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Soul (musik)  (sao)

Soul music  (LCSH)

Detroit (Mich.)  -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

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781.644 (DDC)

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