Heaven was Detroit : from jazz to hip-hop and beyond / edited by M.L. Leibler ; with a foreword by Dave Marsh.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
xvii, 486 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Editor
Writer of foreword
Series
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Detroit jazz. A top-down Motown bebop pubescence : twelve takes / Al Young
  • Bebop in Detroit : nights at the Blue Bird Inn / Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallert
  • The Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Quintet : jazz in Detroit, 1958-61 / Gary Carner
  • Teddy Harris : a jazz man in Motown / Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallert
  • Rebirth of Tribe / Larry Gabriel
  • Strata Records / John Sinclair
  • Roy Brooks : Detroit downbeat / Bill Harris
  • Musician interrupted : Faruq Z. Bey / W. Kim Heron --
  • Detroit blues. Alberta, Alberta : the Alberta Adams story / R.J. Spangler
  • John Lee Hooker and Joe Von Battle : no magic, just men / Marsha Music
  • Searching for the Son : Delta blues legend Son House in Detroit / Rev. Robert B. Jones Sr.
  • Johnnie Bassett : Cadillac bluesman from the Motor City / John Sinclair
  • Motor City blues through the ages / John Sinclair --
  • Early Detroit soul : the pre-Motown sounds. Fortune Records for truly great music / S.R. Boland
  • Nathaniel Mayer in the twenty-first century / Matthew Smith
  • Back in Detroit city with Andre Williams / Matthew Smith
  • Jack Scott : Detroit's unsung rock'n'roll pioneer / S.R. Boland
  • Two Detroit music icons and two classic theaters : Artie Fields and Harry Balk / Joel Martin
  • Nine times out of ten : the Clix Records story / Michael Hurtt --
  • Motown : the sound of young America. The story of Hitsville : Motown days / Gary Graff
  • For Beans : written on the occasion of the funeral service for Dr. Thomas "Beans" Bowles Sr., February 5, 2000, at Central United Methodist Church / Bill Harris
  • Half a mile from heaven : the love songs of Motown / Herb Jordan
  • Waiting for Smokey Robinson / Melba Joyce Boyd
  • Flo Ballard : the love supreme / Peter Benjaminson
  • Mary Wells, "My guy," and the Queen of Motown / Peter Benjaminson
  • An elegant equation : changing world, changing Motown / Herb Jordan
  • The revolution will be recorded : Black Forum Records : Detroit rarity of the revolution / Pat Thomas
  • excerpt from What's going on : Marvin Gaye and the last days of the Motown sound / Ben Edmonds
  • The Motortown revues : an edited excerpt from The story of Motown / Peter Benjaminson
  • Detroit, my Detroit / Susan Whitall --
  • Detroit rocks : the '60s : kick out the jams. DKT/MC5 : the truest possible testimonial / John Sinclair
  • Robin Tyner : early days/final days / Rebecca "Tyner" Derminer
  • Amboy Duke / Gary Graff
  • The story of Detroit's Third Power band/ Willy Wilson
  • Bob Seger : the early years / Gary Graff
  • Seger unsettled / John G. Rodwan Jr.
  • The Rationals / Scott Morgan
  • Strange Früt : an east-side story of the Früt / George Moseman, a.k.a. "Moseley the Punk"
  • Strange mysterious sounds : the demise of Ted Lucas and the Spike-Drivers / Mike Dutkewych --
  • 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 / Lester Bangs
  • Twenty-five years of Creem : kiss and not tell, or Confessions of one of the film foxes / Jaan Ukelszki
  • Who is the Sugar Man? / Howard A. Dewitt
  • Dangerous Diane : Detroit art rock and punk in the late '70s / Diane Spodarek
  • A band called Death / Ben Blackwell
  • How the Gories ruined music / Danny Kroha
  • Kid Rock before the fame : the definitive oral history / Brian McCollum
  • Kid Rock : from apple orchards to the world / Gary Graff
  • Cathouse : the Cass Corridor's last great band / Thomas Trimble --
  • Hip-hop, ghettotech, donuts, and techno dreams. Frankly speaking : Awesome Dre's outspoken Detroit / Matt Deapo
  • Eminem in 2002 / Greil Marcus
  • Eminem : a Detroit story / Bill Holdship
  • Inner city blues : the story of Detroit techno / Hobey Echlin
  • For Dilla's sake and the love of donuts / Shane M. Liebler
  • Ghettotech : Detroit is just here to party / Daniel Jones
  • Champ's town / Brian Smith --
  • Sounds of Detroit : country York Brothers and Latin música. Mellow milestone / Craig Maki
  • The big three : contemporary roots of Latin sounds in Detroit : the Cruz Brothers, Ozzie Rivera, and Luis Resto / Rhonda Welsh --
  • Detroit music miscellanea. Freeform radio master : Dave Dixon on WABX / Chris Morton
  • The day I saved WABX / Dan Carlisle
  • Lee Abrams and the cold-blooded, calculated assassination of Detroit radio : an eyewitness account / Rick Allen
  • Gary Grimshaw : poster child / L.E. Grimshaw
  • Grand daze, bubble puppies, and suburban hippie rock / Dr. Herman Daldin
  • Random thoughts : a brief history of WSU's legendary Zoot's Coffee / Aaron Anderson
  • Rarities of the revolution : Archie Shepp, the MC5, and John Sinclair / Pat Thomas
  • Detroit's historical Archer Records from the inside-outside / Ben Blackwell
  • Majesty Crush lurking in the shadows of Motown and Detroit techno / Hobey Echlin
  • A view of Third Man Records from the inside / Ben Blackwell
  • Future now : Detroit's twenty-first-century record label Jett Plastic / Jarrett Koral.
ISBN
  • 9780814341223 ((paperback))
  • 0814341225 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016940283
OCLC
936009905
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