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The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal
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The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal Hardcover - 2009

by Mark Ribowsky


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Drawing on intimate recollections from friends, family, and Motown contemporaries, Mark Ribowsky charts the Supremes' meteoric rise and bitter disintegration. He sheds light on Diana Ross's relationship with Berry Gordy and her cutthroat rise to top billing in the group, as well as Florence Ballard's corresponding decline. He also takes us inside the studio, examining how timeless classics were conceived and recorded on the Motown "assembly line," and considers the place of Motown in an era of cultural upheaval, when not being "black enough" became a fierce denunciation within the black music industry.

Deftly combining personal testimony, history, and expert analysis, Ribowsky not only tells the full, heartbreaking story of the Supremes, but shows why Gordy's revolutionary concept of "blacks singing white" was essential to the modern evolution of music.

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  • Title The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal
  • Author Mark Ribowsky
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 440
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306815867 / 0306815869
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.7 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 4.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Supremes (Musical group), Women singers - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008051422
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Mark Ribowsky is the acclaimed author of eight books, including He's a Rebel, a biography of Phil Spector. He lives in New York City.
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