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Motor City Music - A Detroiter Looks Back (Hardcover)
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Motor City Music - A Detroiter Looks Back (Hardcover)
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This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres
in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just
"the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war
effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its
musicians, from jazz to classical to ethnic. The author, a
Detroiter from 1943, begins with a reflection of his early life
with his family and others, then weaves through the music traffic
of all the sectors of a dynamic and volatile city. Looking first at
the crucial role of the public schools in fostering talent, Motor
City Music surveys the neighborhoods of older European immigrants
and of the later huge waves of black and white southerners who
migrated to Detroit to serve the auto and defense industries. Jazz
stars, polka band leaders, Jewish violinists, and figures like Lily
Tomlin emerge in the spotlight. Shaping institutions, from the Ford
Motor Company and the United Auto Workers through radio stations
and Motown, all deployed music to bring together a city rent by
relentless segregation, policing, and spasms of violence. The
voices of Detroit's poets, writers, and artists round out the
chorus.
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