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Art and Culture

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Stephanie Dinkins

On Love & Data

By Srimoyee Mitra
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, American Studies, Class Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Urban Studies

Art’s power to challenge inequities and build inclusive dialogues

I Hear a Symphony

Motown and Crossover R&B

By Andrew Flory
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Investigates how the music of Motown Records functioned as the center of the company’s creative and economic impact worldwide

Butch Queens Up in Pumps

Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

By Marlon M. Bailey
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture—from the inside

Dameronia

The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron

By Paul Combs
Subjects: African American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The first authoritative biography of jazz great Tadd Dameron

The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit

By Andrew Herscher
Subjects: American Studies, Art, Architecture, Class Studies, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Urban Studies

A guide to the emergence of alternative urban cultures in the wake of Detroit's economic decline

Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World

Rituals and Remembrances

Edited by Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo & Mamadou Diouf
Subjects: African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Ethnomusicology, African Studies

Collected essays exploring the origins and evolution of music and dance in Afro-Atlantic culture

Soul Music

Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown

By Joel Rudinow
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Philosophy
Series: Tracking Pop

A meditative exploration of the essence of soul in popular music

Guitars, Bars, and Motown Superstars

By Dennis Coffey
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music

Inside stories of the pop-music scenes of the 60s and 70s from one of the fathers of the Motown sound

Delightfulee

The Life and Music of Lee Morgan

By Jeff McMillan
Subjects: African American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The story of one of the most individual jazz stylists of his time

Flowers in the Dustbin

Culture, Anarchy, and Postwar England

By Neil Nehring
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Sociology

Explores the connection between high literary culture and popular culture and argues for cultural anarchism as a form of creative resistance.

Jazz from the Beginning

By Garvin Bushell & Mark Tucker
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music
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