MOTOWN AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF DETROIT Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr.; dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas; facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown--as both musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenon--and of its intrinsic relationship to the politics and culture of Motor Town, USA. Here we see Motown's music not as the mere soundtrack for its historical moment but as an active agent in the civil rights movement and the politics of the time.