基本説明
本書は、米国におけるブラック・ミュージックの歴史において重要な意味を持つ1960年代後半の3年間を 「都市、音楽、社会、そしてミュージシャン」という多角的な視点から捉えた３部作の２巻目です。 第１巻は2015年出版の Detroit 67、そして Harlem 69 と題される最終巻は2018年10月の出版予定です。 第２巻では1967年末に悲劇的な死を遂げたオーティス・レディング、68年4月に暗殺されたキング牧師をはじめ 有名無名数多くの人物、そしてアトランティックやスタックスなどのレコード会社が採りあげられています。
Full Description
WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease with the modern world and yet to adjust to the era of civil rights and racial integration. Stax Records offered an escape from the turmoil of the real world for many soul and blues musicians, with much of the music created there becoming the soundtrack to the civil rights movements.The book opens with the death of the city's most famous recording artist, Otis Redding, who died in a plane crash in the final days of 1967, and then follows the fortunes of Redding's label, Stax/Volt Records, as its fortunes fall and rise again. But, as the tense year unfolds, the city dominates world headlines for the worst of reasons: the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
