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Detroit 67
Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul | Stuart Cosgrove
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'Cosgrove weaves a compelling web of circumstance that maps a city struggling with the loss of its youth to the Vietnam War, the hard edge of the civil rights movement and ferocious inner-city rioting... a whole-hearted evocation of people and places' - Independent Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the break-up of The Supremes and the damaging disputes at the heart 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 - 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. The year 1967 ended in social meltdown, rancour and intense legal warfare as the complex threads that held Detroit together finally unravelled.
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Cinfhen I wasn‘t aware about this event until Litsy #EverydayIsASchoolDay #LiveandLearn 6y
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Day 25 - #detroit67 #timbittunes

I went walking at street level
Feeling strange and disheveled
Past the abattoir and the glory holes
Like a film noir, in the starring role

To the side streets, kept my nose clean
Tasted beautiful, tasted obscene
Singing, "Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh."

This is Detroit, see the skyline
A commotion on the assembly line
Raise a glass to the Ambassador
As she's moving you to the dance floor

wordzie ❤ like...really ❤ 6y
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Tonight I going to see Detroit and I'm very excited.
If you're interested in the 1967 Riots, the Civil Rights Movement, soul music or Motown, I highly recommend you read this. It's brilliant, it's gives a complete overview, month by month, of 1967 both musically and politically.
#booktube #bookbloggers #books #Detroit