Dancing in the Street : : Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit / / Suzanne E. Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Suzanne E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Detroit in the 1960s 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, and facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown--as both musical style and entr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Introduction: ‘‘Can’t Forget the Motor City’’
• 1 ‘‘In Whose Heart There Is No Song, To Him the Miles Are Many and Long’’: Motown and Detroit’s Great March to Freedom
• 2 ‘‘Money (That’s What I Want)’’: Black Capitalism and Black Freedom in Detroit
• 3 ‘‘Come See about Me’’: Black Cultural Production in Detroit
• 4 ‘‘Afro-American Music, without Apology’’: The Motown Sound and the Politics of Black Culture
• 5 ‘‘The Happening’’: Detroit, 1967
• 6 ‘‘What’s Going On?’’ Motown and New Detroit
• Conclusion: ‘‘Come Get These Memories’’
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index