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From Sun to Stax and Beyond, New Book ‘Memphis Mayhem’ Looks at the Intersection of Music, Race and Culture

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David A. Less A new book will explore the racial collision that led to a cultural, sociological and musical revolution in Memphis, Tenn. “Memphis Mayhem,” due out Oct.

6, traces the city’s evolution as a mecca for musicians, starting with early blues at the top of the 20th century to the integrated collectives that were Stax acts like Booker T.

and the MG’s and on through punk, pop and hip-hop. Author David A. Less devotes a chapter to successive deaths of budding star Otis Redding, in a plane crash in December 1967, and Martin Luther King, Jr., who was assassinated outside a Memphis hotel in April 1968.

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