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

When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (1941-1967) was the conscience of a new kind of soul music. Berry Gordy 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 grand tragedy. Now, in this transformative work, Mark Ribowsky contextualises Redding's life within the larger cultural movements of his era. 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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Ribowsky, Ribowsky Mark
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2016
• EAN: 9781631491931
• ISBN: 978-1-63149-193-1
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 316 g
• Illustrations: 8 pages of photographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Soul and Funk, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Popular Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Soul & R 'n B, Soul & R 'n' B