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Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals By Christopher M. Reali. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022

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Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals By Christopher M. Reali. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2025

Brian F. Wright*
Affiliation:
College of Music, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music

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References

1 Bruce Cook, “Muscle What?: Muscle Shoals, That's It; New Home for Hit Records,” The National Observer (March 1, 1971): 1. Cook attributes the final part of the quote to Frank Daily, then Vice President of FAME Recording Studios.

2 Flory, Andrew, I Hear A Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hughes, Charles, Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Stoever, Jennifer Lynn, The Sonic Color Line: Race the Cultural Politics of Listening (New York: New York University Press, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.