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The Stuart Cosgrove Trilogy: a Review by Toby Broom.

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The Stuart Cosgrove Trilogy: a Review by Toby Broom.

  Stuart Cosgrove's trilogy, Detroit 67 The Year That Changed Soul (2016), Memphis 68 The Tragedy Of Southern Soul (2018), and Harlem 69 The Future Of Soul (2018) are prodigious feats of research and scholarship – musical, political, social – and are best read, considered and reviewed as a whole. It is a trilogy to match any written work on music. Cosgrove sees in the story of each complete year in Detroit (1967), Memphis (1968) and Harlem (1969) pivots in black music, politics and society that shaped not only the histories of those years but the decades to come. In the era of Black...

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