Stax: Soulsville USA is a tribute to the audacious joy of making music at a time when racial strife was still tearing the country apart.
In 1957, two siblings named Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton founded a music business that would become one of the most important institutions to ever emerge from my hometown of Memphis. Using the first two letters of each of their last names, they named it Stax -- a brand that evoked stacks of vinyl, eventually attracted artists like Otis Redding, and would come to be so integral to the city that visitors to this day are greeted with its music and iconography as they walk through the airport here.
Black artists at Stax, working side-by-side with white musicians, defied segregation and made music on their own terms — producing hits like the Dock of the Bay, Soul Man, and the Oscar-winning theme from Shaft.
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