Dreams to Remember - Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul - Hardcover

Mark Ribowsky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871408732 ISBN 13: 9780871408730

Publisher: Liveright, 2015

Synopsis

When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (1941 1967) had already become the conscience of a new kind of soul music. Sure, Berry Gordy might have built the first black-owned music empire at Motown, but Redding was doing something as historic: mainstreaming black music within the whitest bastions of the post-Confederate south. As a result, the Redding story still largely untold is one of great conquest but, sadly, grand tragedy. Now, in this transformative work, Mark Ribowsky contextualizes Redding s life within the larger cultural movements of his era, whisking us from the sinful clubs of Macon to the trendsetting studios in Memphis and, finally, to the pulsating stage of the Monterey Music Festival where, in a single set, Redding immortalized himself as a soul legend. What emerges in Dreams to Remember is not only a triumph of music history but also a reclamation of a visionary who would come to define an entire era."

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About the Author

Mark Ribowsky is a New York Times acclaimed, best-selling author of fifteen books, including biographies of Tom Landry, Al Davis, Hank Williams, and most recently, In the Name of the Father: Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty. He lives in Florida.lorida.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871408732
• ISBN 13: 9780871408730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336