julia’s Reviews > Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit > Status Update

...If there was better organization, each example would have a place in the story.

Unfortunately the writing jumps around too much (I think not sticking to a timeline didn't really work) for this to be a 5 star book but I do love the topic and attention to detail. It kind of reads like a textbook, meaning that there's just so much information thrown at the reader. This made it tough for me to remember who everyone was when they were brought up again in other parts of the chapter...

Just read the introduction. It covers a ton of material, so it took a bit longer to read than I would have hoped. I'm looking forward to the rest of the book because the subject is incredibly interesting, but I pray that the following chapters aren't structured in the same way as the introduction. It jumped around between topics and the author repeated the same ideas on a few separate occasions.