One Nation Under A Groove: Motown and American Culture | 
| Author: Gerald Lyn Early
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
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Sales Rank: 909610
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Exp
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Pages: 248
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Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0472089560
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.4842440973
EAN: 9780472089567
ASIN: 0472089560
Publication Date: March 25, 2004
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How Motown changed the landscape of American popular culture
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 What? April 7, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I found this book a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience, particularly when it mentioned the exploitation Berry Gordy put his own artists through, and the hit-factory system he created. If one wants to talk about 'exploitation' then one should look no further than Gordy himself. I don't know what the boneheaded reader below was supposed to think this book was, but I found it too be fairly balanced and not subject to the all the racist hyperbole that he seems to be looking for.
 an interesting book, more or less... May 15, 1999
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'm afraid Mr. Early does not wish to expand to any depth the problems which Black musical artists continue to face from this thorougly racist culture. To discover more pertinent investigations of this ongoing white male-centered racism, one needs to go to the astonishingly brave and insightful bell hooks, and other writers. I would also recommend a book by a white writer, Russell Potter, called 'Spectacular Vernaculars', where he writes about white racism perpetrated against Black musical artists.
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