Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal,political and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown,the break-up of The Supremes and the damaging disputes at the heart of the most successful African-American music label ever.
Set against a backdrop of urban riots,escalating war in Vietnam and police corruption,the book weaves its way through a year when soul music came of age and the underground counterculture flourished. LSD arrived in the city with hallucinogenic power and local guitar band MC5 - self-styled holy barbarians of rock - went to war with mainstream America. A summer of street-level rebellion turned Detroit into one of the most notorious cities on earth,known for its unique creativity,its unpredictability and self-lacerating crime rates.
The year 1967 ended in social meltdown,rancour and intense legal warfare as the complex threads that held Detroit together finally unravelled.
Features the true story of DETROIT,now a major motion picture.
Publisher: Birlinn GeneralISBN: 9781846973666Weight: 404 gDimensions: 195 x 130 x 35 mm
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'Cosgrove weaves a compelling web of circumstance that maps a city struggling with the loss of its youth to the Vietnam War,the hard edge of the civil rights movement and ferocious inner-city rioting...a whole-hearted evocation of people and places'- Independent
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