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Motor City Music - Mark Slobin

Motor City Music

A Detroiter Looks Back

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-088208-2 (ISBN)
CHF 48,55 inkl. MwSt
This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its musicians, from jazz to classical to ethnic. The author, a Detroiter from 1943, begins with a reflection of his early life with his family and others, then weaves through the music traffic of all the sectors of a dynamic and volatile city. Looking first at the crucial role of the public schools in fostering talent, Motor City Music surveys the neighborhoods of older European immigrants and of the later huge waves of black and white southerners who migrated to Detroit to serve the auto and defense industries. Jazz stars, polka band leaders, Jewish violinists, and figures like Lily Tomlin emerge in the spotlight. Shaping institutions, from the Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers through radio stations and Motown, all deployed music to bring together a city rent by relentless segregation, policing, and spasms of violence. The voices of Detroit's poets, writers, and artists round out the chorus.

Mark Slobin was born in wartime Detroit and grew up with classical and folk music backgrounds. His early work on folk music of Afghanistan shifted to studies of Eastern European Jewish music in Europe and America, film music, and theory of ethnomusicology. He spent his career in Wesleyan University's renowned ethnomusicology program and is retired in Manhattan.

1. A City in Motion
2. The Construction Site
3. The Traffic Circle
4. Local Traffic
5. Border Traffic
6. Merging Traffic
7. The City in the Rear-view Mirror

Notes
References
Sources for the City

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 52 illus.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 241 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-19-088208-5 / 0190882085
ISBN-13 978-0-19-088208-2 / 9780190882082
Zustand Neuware
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