Author: Evelyn Reis Ecker KayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Programs and Schools
Author: Evelyn Reis Ecker KayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Programs and Schools
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vocational education
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Dancing in the Street
Author: Suzanne E. SmithPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674043839
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr., dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas, and facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown--as both musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenon--and of its intrinsic relationship to the politics and culture of Motor Town, USA. As Suzanne Smith traces the evolution of Motown from a small record company firmly rooted in Detroit's black community to an international music industry giant, she gives us a clear look at cultural politics at the grassroots level. Here we see Motown's music not as the mere soundtrack for its historical moment but as an active agent in the politics of the time. In this story, Motown Records had a distinct role to play in the city's black community as that community articulated and promoted its own social, cultural, and political agendas. Smith shows how these local agendas, which reflected the unique concerns of African Americans living in the urban North, both responded to and reconfigured the national civil rights campaign. Against a background of events on the national scene--featuring Martin Luther King, Jr., Langston Hughes, Nat King Cole, and Malcolm X--Dancing in the Street presents a vivid picture of the civil rights movement in Detroit, with Motown at its heart. This is a lively and vital history. It's peopled with a host of major and minor figures in black politics, culture, and the arts, and full of the passions of a momentous era. It offers a critical new perspective on the role of popular culture in the process of political change.
Author: Publisher: Youguide International BV
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Directory of Postsecondary Schools with Occupational Programs
Author: Classic
Author: Canvas Detroit
Author: Julie PincusPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338801
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
It will be essential reading for anyone interested in arts and culture in the city.
Detroit Hustle
Author: Amy HaimerlPublisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 076245735X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for 35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. As she and her husband restore the 1914 Georgian Revival, a stately brick house with no plumbing, no heat, and no electricity, Amy finds a community of Detroiters who, like herself, aren't afraid of a little hard work or things that are a little rough around the edges. Filled with amusing and touching anecdotes about navigating a real-estate market that is rife with scams, finding a contractor who is a lover of C.S. Lewis and willing to quote him liberally, and neighbors who either get teary-eyed at the sight of newcomers or urge Amy and her husband to get out while they can, Amy writes evocatively about the charms and challenges of finding her footing in a city whose future is in question. Detroit Hustle is a memoir that is both a meditation on what it takes to make a house a home, and a love letter to a much-derided city.
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Works ...
Author: Detroit (Mich.) Dept. of Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Twelfth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan 1882
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368636529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.