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Respect Yourself

By Robert Gordon

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Robert Gordon tells the story of Stax Records through the musicians and staff who built a recording label in Memphis. The studio’s collaborations sit alongside a changing city, business pressures, and struggles over who controlled the music. Readers can follow how the working life of a label shaped the sound heard on its records.

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Edition and subjects

ISBN-13
9781596915770
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Edition date
2013
First published
2013
Music, Musicians & the Arts Memphis Stax Records Civil Rights era Rhythm and blues Soul Adults

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