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Heaven Was Detroit : From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Painted TurtlePublisher: Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (505 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814341230
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Heaven Was Detroit : From Jazz to Hip-Hop and BeyondDDC classification:
  • 780.977434
LOC classification:
  • ML200.7.M43
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Detroıt Jazz -- A Top-Down Motown Bebop Pubescence: Twelve Takes -- Bebop in Detroit: Nights at the Blue Bird Inn -- The Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Quintet: Jazz in Detroit, 1958-61 -- Teddy Harris: A Jazz Man in Motown -- Rebirth of Tribe -- Strata Records -- Roy Brooks: Detroit Downbeat -- Musician Interrupted: Faruq Z. Bey -- 2. Detroit Blues -- Alberta, Alberta: The Alberta Adams Story -- John Lee Hooker and Joe Von Battle: No Magic, Just Men -- Searching for the Son: Delta Blues Legend Son House in Detroit -- Johnnie Bassett: Cadillac Bluesman from the Motor City -- Motor City Blues through the Ages -- 3. Early Detroit Soul: The Pre-Motown Sounds -- Fortune Records for Truly Great Music -- Nathaniel Mayer in the Twenty-First Century -- Back in Detroit City with Andre Williams -- Jack Scott: Detroit's Unsung Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer -- Two Detroit Music Icons and Two Classic Theaters: Artie Fields and Harry Balk -- Nine Times out of Ten: The Clix Records Story -- 4. Motown: The Sound of Young America -- The Story of Hitsville: Motown Days -- For Beans: Written on the Occasion of the Funeral Service for Dr. Thomas "Beans" Bowles Sr., February 5, 2000, at Central United Methodist Church -- Half a Mile from Heaven: The Love Songs of Motown -- Waiting for Smokey Robinson -- Flo Ballard: The Love Supreme -- Mary Wells, "My Guy," and the Queen of Motown -- An Elegant Equation: Changing World, Changing Motown -- The Revolution Will Be Recorded: Black Forum Records: Detroit Rarity of the Revolution -- Excerpt from What's Going On: Marvin Gaye and the Last Days of the Motown Sound -- The Motortown Revues: An Edited Excerpt from The Story of Motown -- Detroit, My Detroit -- 5. Detroit Rocks: The '60s: Kick Out the Jams -- DKT/MC5: The Truest Possible Testimonial.
Robin Tyner: Early Days/Final Days -- Amboy Duke -- The Story of Detroit's Third Power Band -- Bob Seger: The Early Years -- Seger Unsettled -- The Rationals -- Strange Früt: An East-Side Story of the Früt -- Strange Mysterious Sounds: The Demise of Ted Lucas and the Spike-Drivers -- 6. Detroit Rocks into the '70s and Beyond: From Everyone Loves Alice to Cass Corridor Punk to Death -- Alice Cooper All American: A Horatio Alger Story for the '70s -- Twenty-Five Years of Creem: Kiss and Not Tell, or Confessions of One of the Film Foxes -- Who Is the Sugar Man? -- Dangerous Diane: Detroit Art Rock and Punk in the Late '70s -- A Band Called Death -- How the Gories Ruined Music -- Kid Rock before the Fame: The Definitive Oral History -- Kid Rock: From Apple Orchards to the World -- Cathouse: The Cass Corridor's Last Great Band -- 7. Hip-Hop, Ghettotech, Donuts, and Techno Dreams -- Frankly Speaking: Awesome Dre's Outspoken Detroit -- Eminem in 2002 -- Eminem: A Detroit Story -- Inner-City Blues: The Story of Detroit Techno -- For Dilla's Sake and the Love of Donuts -- Ghettotech: Detroit Is Just Here to Party -- Champ's Town -- 8. Sounds of Detroit: Country York Brothers and Latin Musica -- Mellow Milestone -- The Big Three: Contemporary Roots of Latin Sounds in Detroit-The Cruz Brothers, Ozzie Rivera, and Luis Resto -- 9. Detroit Music Miscellanea -- Freeform Radio Master: Dave Dixon on WABX -- The Day I Saved WABX -- Lee Abrams and the Cold-Blooded, Calculated Assassination of Detroit Radio: An Eyewitness Account -- Gary Grimshaw: Poster Child -- Grande Daze, Bubble Puppies, and Suburban Hippie Rock -- Random Thoughts: A Brief History of WSU's Legendary Zoot's Coffee -- Rarities of the Revolution: Archie Shepp, the MC5, and John Sinclair -- Detroit's Historical Archer Records from the Inside-Outside.
Majesty Crush Lurking in the Shadows of Motown and Detroit Techno -- A View of Third Man Records from the Inside -- Future Now: Detroit's Twenty-First-Century Record Label Jett Plastic -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Contributors -- Credits -- Index.
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A comprehensive collection of essays on the long history of Detroit music by some of America's best-known music writers.

Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music from the early 1900s to the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this unique and stimulating anthology new essays, and a few classics, by widely known and respected music writers, critics, and recording artists who weigh in on their careers and experiences in the Detroit music scene, from rock to jazz and everything in between. With a foreword by the acclaimed rock writer Dave Marsh and iconic photos by Leni Sinclair, the book features such well-known writers as Greil Marcus, Jaan Uhelszki, Al Young, Susan Whitall, Gary Graff, John Sinclair, and many others.

Divided into nine sections, the book moves chronologically through the early days of jazz in Detroit, to the rock 'n' roll of the 1960s, and up to today's electronica scene, with so many groundbreaking moments in between. This collection of cohesive essays includes Motown's connection to the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement through its side label, Black Forum Records; Lester Bangs's exemplary piece on Alice Cooper; the story behind the emergence of rap legend Eminem; and Craig Maki's enlightening history on "hillbilly rock" -- just to name a few. With a rich musical tradition to rival Nashville, Detroit serves as the inspiration, backdrop, and playground for some of the most influential music artists of the past century.

Heaven Was Detroit captures the essence of the Detroit music scene: the grit, the spark, the desire to tell a story set to the rhythm of the city. Fans of any music genre will find something that speaks to them in the pages of this collection.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Detroıt Jazz -- A Top-Down Motown Bebop Pubescence: Twelve Takes -- Bebop in Detroit: Nights at the Blue Bird Inn -- The Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Quintet: Jazz in Detroit, 1958-61 -- Teddy Harris: A Jazz Man in Motown -- Rebirth of Tribe -- Strata Records -- Roy Brooks: Detroit Downbeat -- Musician Interrupted: Faruq Z. Bey -- 2. Detroit Blues -- Alberta, Alberta: The Alberta Adams Story -- John Lee Hooker and Joe Von Battle: No Magic, Just Men -- Searching for the Son: Delta Blues Legend Son House in Detroit -- Johnnie Bassett: Cadillac Bluesman from the Motor City -- Motor City Blues through the Ages -- 3. Early Detroit Soul: The Pre-Motown Sounds -- Fortune Records for Truly Great Music -- Nathaniel Mayer in the Twenty-First Century -- Back in Detroit City with Andre Williams -- Jack Scott: Detroit's Unsung Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer -- Two Detroit Music Icons and Two Classic Theaters: Artie Fields and Harry Balk -- Nine Times out of Ten: The Clix Records Story -- 4. Motown: The Sound of Young America -- The Story of Hitsville: Motown Days -- For Beans: Written on the Occasion of the Funeral Service for Dr. Thomas "Beans" Bowles Sr., February 5, 2000, at Central United Methodist Church -- Half a Mile from Heaven: The Love Songs of Motown -- Waiting for Smokey Robinson -- Flo Ballard: The Love Supreme -- Mary Wells, "My Guy," and the Queen of Motown -- An Elegant Equation: Changing World, Changing Motown -- The Revolution Will Be Recorded: Black Forum Records: Detroit Rarity of the Revolution -- Excerpt from What's Going On: Marvin Gaye and the Last Days of the Motown Sound -- The Motortown Revues: An Edited Excerpt from The Story of Motown -- Detroit, My Detroit -- 5. Detroit Rocks: The '60s: Kick Out the Jams -- DKT/MC5: The Truest Possible Testimonial.

Robin Tyner: Early Days/Final Days -- Amboy Duke -- The Story of Detroit's Third Power Band -- Bob Seger: The Early Years -- Seger Unsettled -- The Rationals -- Strange Früt: An East-Side Story of the Früt -- Strange Mysterious Sounds: The Demise of Ted Lucas and the Spike-Drivers -- 6. Detroit Rocks into the '70s and Beyond: From Everyone Loves Alice to Cass Corridor Punk to Death -- Alice Cooper All American: A Horatio Alger Story for the '70s -- Twenty-Five Years of Creem: Kiss and Not Tell, or Confessions of One of the Film Foxes -- Who Is the Sugar Man? -- Dangerous Diane: Detroit Art Rock and Punk in the Late '70s -- A Band Called Death -- How the Gories Ruined Music -- Kid Rock before the Fame: The Definitive Oral History -- Kid Rock: From Apple Orchards to the World -- Cathouse: The Cass Corridor's Last Great Band -- 7. Hip-Hop, Ghettotech, Donuts, and Techno Dreams -- Frankly Speaking: Awesome Dre's Outspoken Detroit -- Eminem in 2002 -- Eminem: A Detroit Story -- Inner-City Blues: The Story of Detroit Techno -- For Dilla's Sake and the Love of Donuts -- Ghettotech: Detroit Is Just Here to Party -- Champ's Town -- 8. Sounds of Detroit: Country York Brothers and Latin Musica -- Mellow Milestone -- The Big Three: Contemporary Roots of Latin Sounds in Detroit-The Cruz Brothers, Ozzie Rivera, and Luis Resto -- 9. Detroit Music Miscellanea -- Freeform Radio Master: Dave Dixon on WABX -- The Day I Saved WABX -- Lee Abrams and the Cold-Blooded, Calculated Assassination of Detroit Radio: An Eyewitness Account -- Gary Grimshaw: Poster Child -- Grande Daze, Bubble Puppies, and Suburban Hippie Rock -- Random Thoughts: A Brief History of WSU's Legendary Zoot's Coffee -- Rarities of the Revolution: Archie Shepp, the MC5, and John Sinclair -- Detroit's Historical Archer Records from the Inside-Outside.

Majesty Crush Lurking in the Shadows of Motown and Detroit Techno -- A View of Third Man Records from the Inside -- Future Now: Detroit's Twenty-First-Century Record Label Jett Plastic -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Contributors -- Credits -- Index.

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