Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation

by Questlove, Gladys Knight (Foreword by), Nick Cannon (Preface by)

Overview

From Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of the award–winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of television’s Soul Train.

Foreword by Gladys Knight

Preface by Nick Cannon

Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation celebrates the television show that was a two-decade cultural phenomenon from the ’70s through the ’90s, launching the careers of artists such as Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, Whitney Houston, Lenny Kravitz, LL Cool J, and Aretha Franklin.

Questlove reveals the remarkable story of the captivating program, and his text is paired with more than 350 photographs of the show's most memorable episodes and the larger-than-life characters who defined it: the great host Don Cornelius, the extraordinary musicians, and the people who lived the phenomenon from dance floor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062320292
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	11/21/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	615,927
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Questlove is a drummer, DJ, producer, culinary entrepreneur, designer, New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–nominated author, and cofounder of Philadelphia’s most influential hip-hop group, the Roots. He is the musical director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where the Roots serve as the house band, and a four-time Grammy Award–winning musician. He is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. 

Editorial Reviews

…Questlove writes with a fan's passion…[he] has written a coming-of-age story with Soul Train as his muse and first love. His detailed, nearly obsessive knowledge of each episode allows him to isolate those shows with particular meaning for him, and permits us to glimpse his formative years growing up within a family of musicians…[a] delightful picture-laden book…

The New York Times Book Review - Rosemary Bray McNatt