Heaven was Detroit
Subtitle: from jazz to hip-hop and beyond
By: edited by M.L. Liebler ; with a foreword by Dave Marsh
Series: A painted turtle book; Painted turtle book
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780814341223
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Soul music; Popular music; Music trade; Jazz; History; Sound recording industry; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-447) and index.
Table of contents: title: Detroit jazz.; title: A top-down Motown bebop pubescence : twelve takes  -- Al Young; title: Bebop in Detroit : nights at the Blue Bird Inn  -- Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallert; title: The Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Quintet : jazz in Detroit, 1958-61  -- Gary Carner; title: Teddy Harris : a jazz man in Motown  -- Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallert; title: Rebirth of Tribe  -- Larry Gabriel; title: Strata Records  -- John Sinclair; title: Roy Brooks : Detroit downbeat  -- Bill Harris; title: Musician interrupted : Zaruq Z. Bey -- W. Kim Heron; title: Detroit blues.; title: Alberta, Alberta : the Alberta Adams story  -- R.J. Spangler; title: John Lee Hooker and Joe Von Battle : no magic, just men  -- Marsha Music; title: Searching for the Son : Delta blues legend Son House in Detroit  -- Rev. Robert B. Jones Sr.; title: Johnnie Bassett : Cadillac bluesman from the Motor City  -- John Sinclair; title: Motor City blues through the ages -- John Sinclair; title: Early Detroit soul : the pre-Motown sounds.; title: Fortune Records for truly great music  -- S.R. Boland; title: Nathaniel Mayer in the twenty-first century  -- Matthew Smith; title: Back in Detroit city with Andre Williams  -- Matthew Smith; title: Jack Scott : Detroit's unsung rock'n'roll pioneer  -- S.R. Boland; title: Two Detroit music icons and two classic theaters : Artie Fields and Harry Balk  -- Joel Martin; title: Nine times out of ten : the Clix Records story -- Michael Hurtt; title: Motown : the sound of young America.; title: The story of Hitsville : Motown days  -- Gary Graff; title: 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; title: Half a mile from heaven : the love songs of Motown  -- Herb Jordan; title: Waiting for Smokey Robinson  -- Melba Joyce Boyd; title: Flo Ballard : the love supreme  -- Peter Benjaminson; title: Mary Wells, "My guy," and the Queen of Motown  -- Peter Benjaminson; title: An elegant equation : changing world, changing Motown  -- Herb Jordan; title: The revolution will be recorded : Black Forum Records : Detroit rarity of the revolution  -- Pat Thomas -- excerpt from; title: What's going on : Marvin Gaye and the last days of the Motown sound  -- Ben Edmonds; title: The Motortown revues : an edited excerpt from The story of Motown  -- Peter Benjaminson; title: Detroit, my Detroit -- Susan Whitall; title: Detroit rocks : the '60s : kick out the jams.; title: DKT/MC5 : the truest possible testimonial  -- John Sinclair; title: Robin Tyner : early days/final days  -- Rebecca "Tyner" Derminer; title: Amboy Duke  -- Gary Graff; title: The story of Detroit's Third Power band -- Willy Wilson; title: Bob Seger : the early years  -- Gary Graff; title: Seger unsettled  -- John G. Rodwan Jr.; title: The Rationals  -- Scott Morgan; title: Strange Früt : an east-side story of the Früt  -- George Moseman, a.k.a. "Moseley the Punk"; title: Strange mysterious sounds : the demise of Ted Lucas and the Spike-Drivers -- Mike Dutkewych; title: Detroit rocks into the '70s and beyond : from everyone loves Alice to Cass Corridor punk to Death.; title: Alice Cooper all American : a Horatio Alger story for the '70s  -- Lester Bangs; title: Twenty-five years of Creem : kiss and not tell, or Confessions of one of the film foxes  -- Jaan Ukelszki; title: Who is the Sugar Man?  -- Howard A. Dewitt; title: Dangerous Diane : Detroit art rock and punk in the late '70s  -- Diane Spodarek; title: A band called Death  -- Ben Blackwell; title: How the Gories ruined music  -- Danny Kroha; title: Kid Rock before the fame : the definitive oral history  -- Brian McCollum; title: Kid Rock : from apple orchards to the world  -- Gary Graff; title: Cathouse : the Cass Corridor's last great band -- Thomas Trimble; title: Hip-hop, ghettotech, donuts, and techno dreams.; title: Frankly speaking : Awesome Dre's outspoken Detroit  -- Matt Deapo; title: Eminem in 2002  -- Greil Marcus; title: Eminem : a Detroit story  -- Bill Holdship; title: Inner city blues : the story of Detroit techno  -- Hobey Echlin; title: For Dilla's sake and the love of donuts  -- Shane M. Liebler; title: Ghettotech : Detroit is just here to party  -- Daniel Jones; title: Champ's town -- Brian Smith; title: Sounds of Detroit : country York Brothers and Latin música.; title: Mellow milestone  -- Craig Maki; title: The big three : contemporary roots of Latin sounds in Detroit : the Cruz Brothers, Ozzie Rivera, and Luis Resto -- Rhonda Welsh; title: Detroit music miscellanea.; title: Freeform radio master : Dave Dixon on WABX  -- Chris Morton; title: The day I saved WABX  -- Dan Carlisle; title: Lee Abrams and the cold-blooded, calculated assassination of Detroit radio : an eyewitness account  -- Rick Allen; title: Gary Grimshaw : poster child  -- L.E. Grimshaw; title: Grand daze, bubble puppies, and suburban hippie rock  -- Dr. Herman Daldin; title: Random thoughts : a brief history of WSU's legendary Zoot's Coffee  -- Aaron Anderson; title: Rarities of the revolution : Archie Shepp, the MC5, and John Sinclair  -- Pat Thomas; title: Detroit's historical Archer Records from the inside-outside  -- Ben Blackwell; title: Majesty Crush lurking in the shadows of Motown and Detroit techno  -- Hobey Echlin; title: A view of Third Man Records from the inside  -- Ben Blackwell; title: Future now : Detroit's twenty-first-century record label Jett Plastic -- Jarrett Koral.