Author: Bob Harris
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Detroit is famous for its cars and its music. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Motor City fans experienced a golden age of rock and roll. Rock was the defiant voice of the boomer generation. The 1960s and the 1970s were turbulent decades. Blacks and women asserted themselves, breaking down the establishment. Rock music, and the spirit and events that defined it, advanced these interests. The war in Vietnam brought tension and national conflict. Drugs and a sexual revolution, made possible by the introduction of the birth control pill, added to the volatile mix. Woodstock, May Day protests, and the resignation of Pres. Richard Nixon were just a few of the upheavals that made these decades two of the most important in the nation's history. Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s features 200 images, capturing local musicians who started in Detroit and then traveled the world, as well as world-famous acts who came to the city to perform. Intimate stories of musicians, bands, and other members of the rock community make this history a must for dedicated fans.
Motor City Rock and Roll
Author: Bob Harris
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Detroit is famous for its cars and its music. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Motor City fans experienced a golden age of rock and roll. Rock was the defiant voice of the boomer generation. The 1960s and the 1970s were turbulent decades. Blacks and women asserted themselves, breaking down the establishment. Rock music, and the spirit and events that defined it, advanced these interests. The war in Vietnam brought tension and national conflict. Drugs and a sexual revolution, made possible by the introduction of the birth control pill, added to the volatile mix. Woodstock, May Day protests, and the resignation of Pres. Richard Nixon were just a few of the upheavals that made these decades two of the most important in the nation's history. Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s features 200 images, capturing local musicians who started in Detroit and then traveled the world, as well as world-famous acts who came to the city to perform. Intimate stories of musicians, bands, and other members of the rock community make this history a must for dedicated fans.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Detroit is famous for its cars and its music. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Motor City fans experienced a golden age of rock and roll. Rock was the defiant voice of the boomer generation. The 1960s and the 1970s were turbulent decades. Blacks and women asserted themselves, breaking down the establishment. Rock music, and the spirit and events that defined it, advanced these interests. The war in Vietnam brought tension and national conflict. Drugs and a sexual revolution, made possible by the introduction of the birth control pill, added to the volatile mix. Woodstock, May Day protests, and the resignation of Pres. Richard Nixon were just a few of the upheavals that made these decades two of the most important in the nation's history. Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s features 200 images, capturing local musicians who started in Detroit and then traveled the world, as well as world-famous acts who came to the city to perform. Intimate stories of musicians, bands, and other members of the rock community make this history a must for dedicated fans.
Detroit Rock City
Author: Steven Miller
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306821842
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Detroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms, studios, and in the audience, blasting the music out and soaking it up, in every scene from 1967 to today. From fabled axe men like Ted Nugent, Dick Wagner, and James Williamson jump to Jack White, to pop flashes Suzi Quatro and Andrew W.K., to proto punkers Brother Wayne Kramer and Iggy Pop, Detroit slices the rest of the land with way more than its share of the Rock Pie. Detroit Rock City is the story that has never before been sprung, a frenzied and schooled account of both past and present, calling in the halcyon days of the Grande Ballroom and the Eastown Theater, where national acts who came thru were made to stand and deliver in the face of the always hard hitting local support acts. It moves on to the Michigan Palace, Bookies Club 870, City Club, Gold Dollar, and Magic Stick -- all magical venues in America's top rock city. Detroit Rock City brings these worlds to life all from the guys and dolls who picked up a Strat and jammed it into our collective craniums. From those behind the scenes cats who promoted, cajoled, lost their shirts, and popped the platters to the punters who drove from everywhere, this is the book that gives life to Detroit's legend of loud.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306821842
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Detroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms, studios, and in the audience, blasting the music out and soaking it up, in every scene from 1967 to today. From fabled axe men like Ted Nugent, Dick Wagner, and James Williamson jump to Jack White, to pop flashes Suzi Quatro and Andrew W.K., to proto punkers Brother Wayne Kramer and Iggy Pop, Detroit slices the rest of the land with way more than its share of the Rock Pie. Detroit Rock City is the story that has never before been sprung, a frenzied and schooled account of both past and present, calling in the halcyon days of the Grande Ballroom and the Eastown Theater, where national acts who came thru were made to stand and deliver in the face of the always hard hitting local support acts. It moves on to the Michigan Palace, Bookies Club 870, City Club, Gold Dollar, and Magic Stick -- all magical venues in America's top rock city. Detroit Rock City brings these worlds to life all from the guys and dolls who picked up a Strat and jammed it into our collective craniums. From those behind the scenes cats who promoted, cajoled, lost their shirts, and popped the platters to the punters who drove from everywhere, this is the book that gives life to Detroit's legend of loud.
Detroit Rocks!
Author: Gary Grimshaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982386118
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A Pictorial History of Motor City Rock and Roll 1965 to 1975
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982386118
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A Pictorial History of Motor City Rock and Roll 1965 to 1975
Grit, Noise, and Revolution
Author: David A. Carson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472031902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
A narrative history of the birth of rock 'n' roll in Detroit
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472031902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
A narrative history of the birth of rock 'n' roll in Detroit
Heart Soul Detroit
Author: Jenny Risher
Publisher: Momentum Books LLC
ISBN: 9781938018008
Category : Athletes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Momentum Books LLC
ISBN: 9781938018008
Category : Athletes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Motor City Underground : Leni Sinclair Photographs 1963-1973
Author: Cary Loren
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983587057
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983587057
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Hard Stuff
Author: Wayne Kramer
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306921537
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The first memoir by Wayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and cofounder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legends The MC5 "Voyeuristically dramatic." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In January 1969, before the world heard a note of their music, the MC5 was on the cover of Rolling Stone. Led by legendary guitarist Wayne Kramer, the band was a reflection of the times: exciting, sexy, violent, chaotic, and even out of control. The missing link between free jazz and punk rock, the MC5 toured the country, played alongside music legends, and had a rabid following, their music acting as the soundtrack to the blossoming blue collar youth movement. Kramer wanted to redefine what a rock 'n' roll group was capable of, and though there was power in reaching for that, it was also a recipe for personal and professional disaster. The band recorded three major label albums but, by 1972-it was all over. Kramer's story is (literally) a revolutionary one, but it's also the deeply personal struggle of an addict and an artist, a rebel with a great tale to tell. From the glory days of Detroit to the junk-sick streets of the East Village, from Key West to Nashville and sunny L.A., in and out of prison and on and off of drugs, Kramer's is the classic journeyman narrative, but with a twist: he's here to remind us that revolution is always an option.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306921537
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The first memoir by Wayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and cofounder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legends The MC5 "Voyeuristically dramatic." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In January 1969, before the world heard a note of their music, the MC5 was on the cover of Rolling Stone. Led by legendary guitarist Wayne Kramer, the band was a reflection of the times: exciting, sexy, violent, chaotic, and even out of control. The missing link between free jazz and punk rock, the MC5 toured the country, played alongside music legends, and had a rabid following, their music acting as the soundtrack to the blossoming blue collar youth movement. Kramer wanted to redefine what a rock 'n' roll group was capable of, and though there was power in reaching for that, it was also a recipe for personal and professional disaster. The band recorded three major label albums but, by 1972-it was all over. Kramer's story is (literally) a revolutionary one, but it's also the deeply personal struggle of an addict and an artist, a rebel with a great tale to tell. From the glory days of Detroit to the junk-sick streets of the East Village, from Key West to Nashville and sunny L.A., in and out of prison and on and off of drugs, Kramer's is the classic journeyman narrative, but with a twist: he's here to remind us that revolution is always an option.
Motor City Music
Author: Scott Westerman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535125789
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Back before there were iPods and smartphones, before the consolidation that homogenized and depersonalized radio, broadcasting was about intimate relationships between the announcers and their listeners. The DJs kept us company, answered our phone calls and dispensed advice and wisdom along with the music that became the soundtrack of our lives.Every market had it's unique broadcast identity. Stations fought for market share. The music was carefully selected to reflect the brand. And air talent was at the center of it all.Within the pages of Motor City Music, we learn the Keener story along with every WKNR Music Guide ever published and key headlines from every year that WKNR was on the air. For those who grew up in the 60s, it's a time capsule of memories, from an era when every season was Keener season.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535125789
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Back before there were iPods and smartphones, before the consolidation that homogenized and depersonalized radio, broadcasting was about intimate relationships between the announcers and their listeners. The DJs kept us company, answered our phone calls and dispensed advice and wisdom along with the music that became the soundtrack of our lives.Every market had it's unique broadcast identity. Stations fought for market share. The music was carefully selected to reflect the brand. And air talent was at the center of it all.Within the pages of Motor City Music, we learn the Keener story along with every WKNR Music Guide ever published and key headlines from every year that WKNR was on the air. For those who grew up in the 60s, it's a time capsule of memories, from an era when every season was Keener season.
God, Guns & Rock'N'Roll
Author: Ted Nugent
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1596986638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Rock and Roll legend Ted Nugent contends that a lot of what is wrong with this country could be remedied by a simple, but controversial concept: gun ownership.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1596986638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Rock and Roll legend Ted Nugent contends that a lot of what is wrong with this country could be remedied by a simple, but controversial concept: gun ownership.
Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang
Author: Paul R. Kavieff
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang is a photographic history of one of the most notorious organized crime groups of the 20th century. The photographs chronologically follow the evolution of the Purples from their days as a juvenile street gang through their rise to power and eventual self-destruction. Using rare police department mug shots and group photographs, the book transports readers through the dark side of Prohibition-era Detroit history. Detroit had a gold rush atmosphere and a thriving black market during the 1920s that attracted gangsters and unsavory characters from all over the country.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang is a photographic history of one of the most notorious organized crime groups of the 20th century. The photographs chronologically follow the evolution of the Purples from their days as a juvenile street gang through their rise to power and eventual self-destruction. Using rare police department mug shots and group photographs, the book transports readers through the dark side of Prohibition-era Detroit history. Detroit had a gold rush atmosphere and a thriving black market during the 1920s that attracted gangsters and unsavory characters from all over the country.