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How Stax Records forever changed the music industry

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The outside of Stax Records, located in Memphis Tennessee. The four-part series is out now on HBO Max.

In the 1960s and 70s, Stax Records, also known as Soulsville, USA, was delivering some of the biggest hits in North America.

Based in Memphis, Tennessee, Stax signed legendary artists like Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas and Otis Redding and changed the music industry forever. Now, there's a four part series out on HBO Max about how the iconic record label became a quintessential part of the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

Journalism professor Ericka Blount, musicologist Rob Bowman and freelance journalist TJ Armour join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud onto reflect on Stax Records' historic legacy and how the label helped shape their music tastes.LISTEN | Today's episode on YouTube:Ericka, I'm going to start with you. You grew up loving this music. Can you describe a moment that really stays with you when you first heard a Stax song?.

1960 Memphis was a totally segregated city where Doctor King got killed eight years later. It's an integrated company. It was an oasis of racial sanity in an incredibly insane world. And it was Black music. There's no way anybody can suggest it's not. But there were also white influences coming in through people like Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn. It was a very interesting hybrid. Black centred, but it had some unique twists.

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