Ryan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYAKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENWhite, Adam.
Summary: "Motown: The Sound of Young America is the definitive, visual history of the Detroit-based independent record company which became a style unto itself, a prolific and hugely successful production line of suave, sassy and sophisticated music through the sixties, seventies and eighties. Featuring extensive, specially commissioned photography of treasures gathered from the archives, this landmark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Ltd. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 WHISummary: "The Girl Group Sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mix of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to number one, Girl Groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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Summary: "In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. Many of the singers of this era became wildly famous and respected, and even made it into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. However, there were many others, such as Margie Day, Helen Humes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: I cried for my last time (The Sonnettes) -- Think a little sugar (Barbara Lewis) -- Come back to me (La Wanda William) -- I'm a lonely guy (Timmy Shaw & The Sternphones) -- Just one more time (J.J. Barnes) -- Everything's gonna be alright (Leon Peterson) -- You lied (Marva Josie) -- Here I am (Betty Lavett) -- My letter (Priscilla Page) -- I know how it feels (Laura Johnson) -- Oh baby (The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kent Soul 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BIRMiller, Steve
Summary: From the Stooges and MC to the White Stripes, Eminem, and Kid Rock, this account of rock in Detroit, which has always produced more subversive rock music than any city in the world, presents stories from the participants themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 MILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 MILEddy, Chuck.
Summary: "Chuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining, idiosyncratic, influential, and prolific music critics of the past three decades...Rock and Roll Always Forgets features the best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by this singular critic."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 EDDContents: Come on back ; Chains of love ; Now that I got you back ; Easy living ; Sweet Sherry ; Got to get rid of you ; Snow flakes (J.J. Barnes) -- Don't make me a storyteller ; A love like yours ; Keep the faith ; I don't wanna lose you ; Hate yourself in the morning ; Just keep on loving me (Steve Mancha) -- Just because your love is gone ; Forgive me ; Only the strong survive ; Don't know what to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stax Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SOUHarvilla, Rob
Summary: "A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade. The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous RB to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023
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Summary: "A fascinating account of the music and epic social change of 1973, a defining year for David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Eagles, Elvis Presley, and the former members of The Beatles. 1973 was the year rock hit its peak while splintering-just like the rest of the world. Ziggy Stardust travelled to America in David Bowie's Aladdin Sane. The Dark Side of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 JACMessenger, Bill.
Summary: Presents an overview of jazz, its elements, and its history. Includes performances by various jazz artists.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 781.65 MESElliott, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research 1999
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3 EllioAustin, Dan.
Summary: From the Publisher: In this important book, Dan Austin and Sean Doerr have restored the real people to many of Detroit's architectural landmarks, and not a moment too soon. These "lost" buildings still stand, or rather totter, in a dilapidated state, their histories fading like the paint on their walls. The buildings might not long survive, but thanks to this book and the efforts of Austin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 AUSCarson, David
Contents: Boogie and the beat -- Fame and fortune -- Freewheelin' in the motor city -- Motown and other sounds -- The village is on fire -- On to the hideout -- So you wanna be a rock 'n' roll star? -- A whole lotta soul, a whole lotta funk -- Birth of the noise -- A mythical figure -- Summer in the city -- Hippies and head shops -- Hits and misses -- Something in the air -- Seger on the rise -- A night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 CARBinelli, Mark.
Summary: "The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 307.1 BINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.1216 BINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.1216 BINSmith, Colby Cedar
Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIBorgerson, Janet
Summary: "This book presents a visually compelling collection of vintage dance record covers from the golden age of album cover design and discusses their contribution to the story of American identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain BorgersonDickinson, Eliot.
Summary: From the Publisher: "The Copts, or Egyptian Christians, are a relatively small and tight-knit ethno-religious group, numbering perhaps three thousand people and living mostly in the Detroit metropolitan area. Since they began immigrating to Michigan in the mid-1960s, their community has grown exponentially." Granted exceptional access to the Coptic community, Eliot Dickinson provides the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPOM DickinsonSummary: Throughout history, musicians and musical works have reflected the fashion, culture, and social attitudes of their times. Music today is more diversified than ever, from the megahits of teen pop stars to the depth and emotionality of gospel choirs to the tones and textures produced by large-scale orchestras. Add to this the unstoppable forces of MySpace, YouTube, the iPod, and a rapidly...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Warner, Andrea
Summary: "In Rise Up and Sing!, Andrea Warner explores how music has contributed to the fight for social justice. Across eight areas of activism--the climate emergency, Indigenous rights, civil rights, disability rights, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, gender equality, the peace/anti-war movement, and human rights--Warner introduces some of the artists, past and present, who have made a difference both on stage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 781.64 WARKinney, Rebecca J.
Summary: "The first book to analyze how contemporary ideas of Detroit circulate in popular culture in order to map the extension of the mythology of the frontier in American culture. Kinney analyzes a cross-section of twentieth and twenty first century cultural locations--an internet web forum, architectural photography, advertising and commercial culture, documentary film, and print and online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 KINTobin, Jacqueline
Summary: The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers. While there were dedicated conductors and safe houses, there were also arduous nights in the mountains and days in threatening towns. For those who made it to Midnight, the code name given to Detroit, the Detroit River became their Jordan. And Canada became the Promised Land where they could live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 TOBGuralnick, Peter
Summary: "Peter Guralnick's remarkable work... covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and strikingly personal portraits of creative artists, both musicians and writers, at the height of their powers. "You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us," rock critic Lester Bangs wrote of Guralnick's earlier work in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020