It Came From Memphis EXPANDED EDITION by Robert Gordon

The updated and revised edition 25th Anniversary edition of  It Came From Memphis by Robert Gordon features more than 80 new photos and a new layout, an updated text featuring more  voices, a new foreword, afterword and updated buying recommendations from the author.  "Superb." —The New York Times   "Essential document of the Weird Memphis Underground." —Goner Records   “This collection is a distinctly American story with social and cultural ramifications we can only begin to calibrate, so deeply ingrained as they are in the national character.” —The Washington Post Book World    Get them both for so much Memphis you'll be tasting Barbecue and quoting Jim Dickinson for days!Vienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop—except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced black American culture when dominant society simply ignored or a