Dancing in the street : Motown and the cultural politics of Detroit

Dancing in the street : Motown and the cultural politics of Detroit / Suzanne E. Smith.

Author/creator	Smith, Suzanne E., 1964-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Description	319 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Motown Record Corporation. African Americans--Music --Social aspects --Michigan --Detroit. Civil rights movements--Michigan --Detroit. African Americans--Michigan --Detroit --Music. Music--Social aspects --Michigan --Detroit.

Variant title	Motown and the cultural politics of Detroit
Contents	In whose heart there is no song, to him the miles are many and long": Motown and Detroit's great march to freedom -- "Money (that's what I want)": Black capitalism and Black freedom in Detroit -- "Come see about me": Black cultural production in Detroit -- "Afro-American music, without apology": the Motown sound and the politics of Black culture -- "The happening": Detroit 1967 -- "What's going on?" Motown and new Detroit.
Abstract	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.
Local note	Little-328108--305131026063U
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-306) and index.
LCCN	99034399
ISBN	0674000633 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Music	Music Stacks	ML3792 .S65 1999	✔ Available	Place Hold