After Stax Race, Sound, and Neighborhood Revitalization

Scores of people descended on an iconic block in South Memphis on an unseasonably warm October day in 2016.¹ They were gathered for the Soulsville Festival, the brainchild of Tonya Dyson, a young entrepreneur, soul singer, and music educator in Memphis. The festival, then in its second year, was the...

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Published inAn Unseen Light p. 348
Main Author Zandria F. Robinson
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published The University Press of Kentucky 10.04.2018
Subjects
African Americans
American minorities
Anthropology
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Black communities
Black power
Cities
Communities
Concept of mind
Consciousness theory
Ethnic groups
Ethnology
Housing
Human geography
Human societies
Metaphysics
Metropolitan areas
Monopsychism
Music
Music genres
Neighborhoods
Performing arts
Philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Political geography
Political movements
Political science
Political sociology
Popular music
Social geography
Social groups
Social sciences
Sociology
Soul
Soul music
White people
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Summary:Scores of people descended on an iconic block in South Memphis on an unseasonably warm October day in 2016.¹ They were gathered for the Soulsville Festival, the brainchild of Tonya Dyson, a young entrepreneur, soul singer, and music educator in Memphis. The festival, then in its second year, was the first of its kind to explicitly pay homage to the city’s legacy of soul by showcasing new homegrown musical talent. In the shadows of the festival’s jubilance were the enduring inequities left by a protracted urban renewal process, deindustrialization, globalization, and the dismantling of one of the neighborhood’s key anchor