Heaven was Detroit : from jazz to hip-hop and beyond

Author

M L Liebler

Call Numbers

• 780.9774 H4426 (CEN)
• H 780.9774 H4426 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2016]

Physical Description

xvii, 486 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Contents

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 / 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Mellow milestone / The big three : contemporary roots of Latin sounds in Detroit : the Cruz Brothers, Ozzie Rivera, and Luis Resto

• 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 / Grand 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