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Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
By Gordon, Robert
- ISBN
- 9781596915770 9781608194179
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
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Reviewed on February 1, 2014 | Arts and Humanities
Gordon (Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters) follows up his similarly titled 2007 PBS documentary with this expansive account of the rise and fall of Memphis label Stax Records, a driving force in the development of R&B and soul music from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. His fluent prose and quotes from interviews keep the reader's attention as he combines technical accounts of reco...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
