Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom - Softcover

Guralnick, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316332739 ISBN 13: 9780316332736

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 1999

Synopsis

A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues to create Southern soul music. Through rare interviews and with unique insight, Peter Guralnick tells the definitive story of the songs that inspired a generation and forever changed the sound of American music.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Guralnick has written extensively on American music and musicians. His books include the prize-winning two-volume Elvis Presley biography, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; the acclaimed trilogy on American roots music, Sweet Soul Music, Lost Highway and Feel Like Going Home; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; and the novel Nighthawk Blues.

From Library Journal:

"A definitive chronicle of one of the great creative periods in American pop history," said LJ's reviewer of this 1986 volume, which tracks the rise and fall of a collaboration of white and black musicians, songwriters, and singers from the 1950s to its peak and disintegration a decade later.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0316332739
• ISBN 13: 9780316332736
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384