Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

ISBN 10: 1596439734 / ISBN 13: 9781596439733

Verlag: Roaring Brook, 2015

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From award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney comes the story of the music that defined a generation and a movement that changed the world.

Berry Gordy began Motown in 1959 with an $800 loan from his family. He converted the garage of a residential house into a studio and recruited teenagers from the neighborhood-like Smokey Robinson, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Diana Ross-to sing for his new label. Meanwhile, the country was on the brink of a cultural revolution, and one of the most powerful agents of change in the following decade would be this group of young black performers from urban Detroit. From Berry Gordy and his remarkable vision to the Civil Rights movement, from the behind-the-scenes musicians, choreographers, and song writers to the most famous recording artists of the century, Andrea Davis Pinkney takes readers on a Rhythm Ride through the story of Motown.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books for children, many of them illustrated by her husband Brian Pinkney. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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Titel: Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown ...
Verlag: Roaring Brook
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good