Full name: Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom

Author: Peter Guralnick Year: 1986 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, History Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads OpenLibrary Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316332736 0316332739

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. Similar books: Generation Ecstasy by Simon Reynolds Bootleg by Clinton Heylin Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster Yeah Yeah Yeah by Bob Stanley A Change Is Gonna Come by Craig Werner How Music Works by David Byrne Perfecting Sound Forever by Greg Milner Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey This is Uncool by Garry Mulholland Where Did Our Love Go? by Nelson George Big Bangs by Howard Goodall The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein Respect Yourself by Robert Gordon Black Metal by Dayal Patterson Lost Highway by Peter Guralnick Blues People by Leroi Jones Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia Cuba and Its Music by Ned Sublette The Swing Era by Gunther Schuller