Bibliography of Detroit History, Politics, and Culture Late-Nineteenth Century to the Present Compiled by Thomas A. Klug April 8

Bibliography of Detroit History, Politics, and Culture Late-Nineteenth Century to the Present

Compiled by Thomas A. Klug April 8, 2019

Art, Architecture, Dance, Photography, Music, Museums, and Theater

Publications

Abrahamson, Michael. “‘Actual Center of Detroit’: Method, Management, and Decentralization in Albert Kahn’s General Motors Building.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 77, no. 1 (March 2018): 56–76. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2018.77.1.56. Abt, Jeffrey. A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882-2000. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Adamson, Morgan. “Labor, Finance, and Counterrevolution: Finally Got the News at the End of the Short American Century.” South Atlantic Quarterly 111, no. 4 (Fall 2012): 803–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-1724192. Ahuja, Nitin K. “Fordism in the Hospital: Albert Kahn and the Design of Old Main, 1917–25.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 67, no. 3 (July 2012): 398–427. Apel, Dora. Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. Arnold, Amy L., and Brian D. Conway. Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2016. Aubert, Danielle, Lana Cavar, and Natasha Chandani, eds. Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit. New York, NY: Metropolis Books, 2012. Austin, Dan. Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City’s Majestic Ruins. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2010. Bak, Richard. Boneyards: Detroit Under Ground. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2010. ———. Detroit: A Postcard History. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1998. Balmori, Diana. “Cranbrook: The Invisible Landscape.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 53, no. 1 (March 1, 1994): 30–60. https://doi.org/10.2307/990808. Barndt, Kerstin. “Fordist Nostalgia: History and Experience at the Henry Ford.” Rethinking History 11, no. 3 (September 2007): 379–410. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642520701353330. Batchelor, Ray. Henry Ford, Mass Production, Modernism, and Design. New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 1994.

Bego, Mark. Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul. Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2012. Biggs, Lindy. The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America’s Age of Mass Production. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Bjorn, Lars. “Black Men in a White World: The Development of the Black Jazz Community in Detroit, 1917-1940.” Detroit in Perspective 5 (Fall 1980). ———. “From Hastings Street to the Bluebird: The Blues and Jazz Tradition in Detroit.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25 (Spring 1986): 257–67. Bjorn, Lars, and Jim Gallert. Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Bluestone, Daniel M. “Detroit’s City Beautiful and the Problem of Commerce.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 47, no. 3 (September 1988): 245–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/990300. Boyd, Melba Joyce. Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2003. Boyd, Melba Joyce, and M. L. Liebler. Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Bradley, Betsy Hunter. The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. Bucci, Federico. Albert Kahn: Architect of Ford. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993. Bukowczyk, John J., Douglas Aikenhead, and Peter Slavcheff, eds. Detroit Images: Photographs of the Renaissance City. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1989. Carriere, Michael H. “Touch and Go Records and the Rise of Hardcore Punk in Late Twentieth- Century Detroit.” Cultural History 4, no. 1 (March 2015): 19–41. https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2015.0082. Carson, David A. Grit, Noise, & Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock “N” Roll. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006. Che, Deborah. “Sports, Music, Entertainment and the Destination Branding of Post-Fordist Detroit.” Tourism Recreation Research 33, no. 2 (January 2008): 195–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2008.11081305. Cobb, James C. “From Rocky Top to Detroit City: Country Music and the Economic Transformation of the South.” In You Wrote My Life: Lyrical Themes in Country Music, edited by Melton McLaurin and Richard Peterson, 63–79. Philadelphia, PA: Gordon and Breach, 1992. Cohen, Mary Morley. “Forgotten Audiences in the Passion Pits: Drive-in Theatres and Changing Spectator Practices in Post-War America.” Film History 6, no. 4 (Winter 1994): 470–86. Cohn, Barbara Madgy, and Patrice Rafail Merritt. The Detroit Public Library: An American

Classic. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2017. Collum, Marla O., Barbara E. Krueger, and Dorothy Kostuch, eds. Detroit’s Historic Places of Worship. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2012. Darroch, Michael. “Border Scenes.” Cultural Studies 29, no. 3 (2015): 298–325. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2014.937935. Dean, John. “Edsel Ford: The Businessman as Artist. A Wealth of Creative Abilities.” Transatlantica: Revue d’études Américaines, no. 2 (2010). Downs, Linda Bank. Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999. ———. “Diego Rivera’s Portrait of Edsel Ford.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 57, no. 1 (February 1979): 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1086/DIA41505377. Fahey, Carolyn. “Urban or Moral Decay?: The Case of Twentieth Century Detroit.” Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 41, no. 3 (July 2017): 170–83. https://doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2017.1301292. Ferry, W. Hawkins. The Legacy of Albert Kahn. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1987. Galbraith, Stuart. Motor City Marquees: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Motion Picture Theaters in the Detroit Area 1906-1992. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001. Gallagher, John. Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for Serenity. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2015. Gansky, Andrew Emil. “‘Ruin Porn’ and the Ambivalence of Decline: Andrew Moore’s Photographs of Detroit.” Photography and Culture 7, no. 2 (July 2014): 119–39. https://doi.org/10.2752/175145214X13999922103084. Gifford, Paul M. “Henry Ford’s Dance Revival and Fiddle Contests: Myth and Reality.” Journal of the Society for American Music 4, no. 3 (August 2010): 307–38. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1752196310000167. Goodall, Alex. “The Battle of Detroit and Anti-Communism in the Depression Era.” The Historical Journal 51, no. 2 (June 2008): 457–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X0800678X. Gordy, Berry. To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown, 1994. Gregory, James N. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Grieveson, Lee. “The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization.” Cinema Journal 51, no. 3 (Spring 2012): 25–51. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2012.0042. Groehn, Mrs. Henry G. Treasure Is Where You Find It: History of Canfield West Between Second Boulevard and Third Avenue. Detroit, MI: Historic Memorials Society, 1969.

Gyure, Dale Allen. Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Halsted, Carol D. “A Voice for Dance in Detroit, 1931-1940.” In Of, by, and for the People: Conference Proceedings, 119–23. Riverside, CA: Society of Dance History Scholars, 1993. Hamera, Judith. Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. Hardwick, M. Jeffrey. Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Harris, Laurie Lanzen, and Paul Ganson. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Grace, Grit, and Glory. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2016. Herrington, Susan. “Fraternally Yours: The Union Architecture of Oskar Stonorov and Walter Reuther.” Social History 40, no. 3 (July 2015): 360–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2015.1043189. Herscher, Andrew. The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012. Hildebrand, Grant. Designing for Industry: The Architecture of Albert Kahn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974. ———. “New Factory for the Geo. N. Pierce Company, Buffalo, New York-1906.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 29, no. 1 (March 1970): 51–55. https://doi.org/10.2307/988576. Hodges, Michael H. Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2018. Holleman, Thomas J, and James P Gallagher. Smith, Hinchman & Grylls: 125 Years of Architecture and Engineering, 1853-1978. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1978. Hyde, Charles K. “Assembly-Line Architecture: Albert Kahn and the Evolution of the U.S. Auto Factory, 1905-1940.” IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 22, no. 2 (1996): 5–24. Jacob, Mary Jane, and Linda Downs. The Rouge: The Image of Industry in the Art of Charles Sheeler and Diego Rivera. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1978. Jay, Mark, and Virginia Leavell. “Material Conditions of Detroit’s Great Rebellion.” Social Justice 44, no. 4 (2017): 27-54,167. Johnson, Lois, and Margaret Thomas. Detroit’s Eastern Market: A Farmers Market Shopping and Cooking Guide. 3rd ed. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2016. Kinloch, Valerie. “The Heidelberg Art Project as a Site of Literacy Activities and Urban Renewal Efforts: Implications for Composition Studies.” JAC 25, no. 1 (2005): 101–29.

Knowles, Scott G., and Stuart W. Leslie. “‘Industrial Versailles’: Eero Saarinen’s Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and AT&T.” Isis 92, no. 1 (March 2001): 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1086/385038. Kramer, Michael J. “‘Can’t Forget the Motor City’: CREEM Magazine, Rock Music, Detroit Identity, Mass Consumerism, and the Counterculture.” Michigan Historical Review 28, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 42–77. https://doi.org/10.2307/20173983. Lauder, Adam, and Lee Rodney. “Albert Kahn’s Five-Year Plant and the Birth of ‘Uncertain Space.’” Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism 12, no. 2 (Winter 2015): 39–61. https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.12.2.0039. Levering, Marijean. Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2017. ———. “History on Stage: The Detroit Players, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.” Michigan Historical Review 33, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 47–79. Lewis, David L., and Bill Rauhauser. The Car and the Camera: The Detroit School of Automotive Photography. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1996. Lewis, Robert. “Redesigning the Workplace: The North American Factory in the Interwar Period.” Technology and Culture 42, no. 4 (October 2001): 665–84. Longstreth, Richard, and Richard W. Longstreth. The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Lucic, Karen. “Charles Sheeler and Henry Ford: A Craft Heritage for the Machine Age.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 65, no. 1 (August 1989): 36–47. https://doi.org/10.1086/DIA41504809. Luescher, Andreas, and Sujata Shetty. “The Packard Plant as a Testament to Automotive Heritage.” In Urban Shrinkage, Industrial Renewal and Automotive Plants, edited by Andreas Luescher and Sujata Shetty, 25–47. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Pivot, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03380-4_3. Macías, Anthony. “‘Detroit Was Heavy’: Modern Jazz, Bebop, and African American Expressive Culture.” The Journal of African American History 95, no. 1 (2010): 44–70. Maraniss, David. Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2015. Marback, Richard. “Detroit and the Closed Fist: Toward a Theory of Material Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Review 17, no. 1 (Fall 1998): 74–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350199809359232. McMeekin, Dorothy. Diego Rivera: Science and Creativity in the Detroit Murals. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1985. Meister, Chris. “Albert Kahn’s Partners in Industrial Architecture.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 72, no. 1 (March 2013): 78–95. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.1.78.

Miller, Karen R. “Whose History, Whose Culture?: The Museum of African American History, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Urban Politics at the End of the Twentieth Century.” Michigan Quarterly Review 41, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 136–54. Miner, Dylan A. T. “El Renegado Comunista: Diego Rivera, La Liga De Obreros Y Campesinos and Mexican Repatriation in Detroit.” Third Text 19, no. 6 (November 2005): 647–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528820500381673. Morrison, Andrew Craig. Opera House, Nickel Show, and Palace: An Illustrated Inventory of Theater Buildings in the Detroit Area. Dearborn, MI: Greenfield Village & Henry Ford Museum, 1974. Nawrocki, Dennis Alan, and David Clements. Art in Detroit Public Places. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2008. Nettl, Bruno. “Preliminary Remarks on Urban Folk Music in Detroit.” Western Folklore 16, no. 1 (January 1957): 37–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/1497060. Peck, William H. The Detroit Institute of Arts: A Brief History. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1991. Penney, David W. “Reinventing the Detroit Institute of Arts: The Reinstallation Project 2002– 2007.” Curator: The Museum Journal 52, no. 1 (January 2009): 35–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2151-6952.2009.tb00331.x. Pincus, Julie, and Nichole Christian. Canvas Detroit. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2014. Pope, Richard. “Hooked on an Affect: Detroit Techno and Dystopian Digital Culture.” Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 2, no. 1 (February 2011): 24–44. Posner, Gerald. Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power. New York, NY: Random House, 2002. Quispel, Chris. “Detroit, City of Cars, City of Music.” Built Environment 31, no. 3 (September 2005): 226–36. https://doi.org/info:doi/10.2148/benv.2005.31.3.226. Rashid, Frank. “Robert Hayden’s Detroit Blues Elegies.” Callaloo 24, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 200– 226. Ribowsky, Mark. The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2009. Robe, Chris. “Detroit Rising: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Newsreel, and the Making of Finally Got the News.” Film History 28, no. 4 (Winter 2016): 125–58. Salvatore, Nick. Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co., 2005. Savaglio, Paula. “Big-Band, Slovenian-American, Rock, and Country Music: Cross-Cultural Influences in the Detroit Polonia.” Polish American Studies 54, no. 2 (Autumn 1997): 23–44. ———. “Polka Bands and Choral Groups: The Musical Self-Representation of Polish-

Americans in Detroit.” Ethnomusicology 40, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 35–47. https://doi.org/10.2307/852435. Sharoff, Robert. American City: Detroit Architecture, 1845-2005. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2005. Singleton, Raynoma Gordy. Berry, Me, and Motown: The Untold Story. Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books, 1990. Slobin, Mark. “Improvising a Musical Metropolis: Detroit in the 1940s–1960s.” Ethnomusicology 60, no. 1 (Winter 2016): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.60.1.0001. Smith, Michael G. Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2017. Smith, Suzanne E. “‘Boogie Chillen’: Uncovering Detroit’s African-American Cultural History.” Michigan Historical Review 27, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 93–107. https://doi.org/10.2307/20173896. ———. Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Steinmetz, George. “Drive-by Shooting: Making a Documentary About Detroit.” Michigan Quarterly Review 45, no. 3 (Summer 2006). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0045.310. Sterne, Margaret. “The Museum Director and the Artist: Dr. William Valentiner and Diego Rivera in Detroit.” Detroit in Perspective 1, no. 2 (Winter 1973): 88–110. Swigger, Jessie. “History Is Bunk”: Assembling the Past at Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village. Amherst, MA: Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2014. Thompson, Julius E. Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960–1995. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. Turner, Tony, and Barbara Aria. All That Glittered: My Life with the Supremes. New York, NY: EP Dutton, 1990. ———. Deliver Us from Temptation: The Tragic and Shocking Story of the Temptations and Motown. New York, NY: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1992. Waldheim, Charles, ed. Hilberseimer/Mies van Der Rohe, Lafayette Park Detroit. New York, NY: Prestel Publishing, 2004. Walters, Wendy S. “Turning the Neighborhood Inside Out: Imagining a New Detroit in Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project.” TDR/The Drama Review 45, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 64–93. https://doi.org/10.1162/105420401772990333. Wilson, Mary, and Patricia Romanowski. Supreme Faith: Someday We’ll Be Together. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1990. Wilson, Sunnie. Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson. Detroit, MI: Wayne

State University Press, 1998. Wolfe, Bertram David. Diego Rivera: His Life and Times. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. ———. The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera. New York, NY: Cooper Square Press, 2000. Woodford, Frank B. Parnassus on Main Street: A History of the Detroit Public Library. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1965. Yamasaki, Minoru. “The Plan for Wayne University.” Journal of Architectural Education 13, no. 2 (September 1958): 48–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.1958.11102398.

Art, Architecture, Dance, Photography, Music, Museums, and Theater

Unpublished Works

Aldridge, Henry B. “Live Musical and Theatrical Presentations in Detroit Moving Picture Theatres, 1896 to 1930.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1973.

Boggs, Jon W. “Music Instruction in Detroit from 1874 to 1929.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1970. Brownlee, Mary A. “Non-Professional Theater in Detroit from 1920 to November 1953.” MA Thesis, Wayne University, 1954. Cohen, Dian. “Victor Gruen and the Regional Shopping Center.” M.S. thesis, Columbia University, 1984. Harbin, Shirley M. “Detroit Recreation Department Theatre, 1963-1976.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 1977. Kienker, Brittany Lynn. “The Henry Ford: Sustaining Henry Ford’s Philanthropic Legacy.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 2013. Kopf, Anne. “Dynamic Intervention: Reawakening the Detroit Boat Club.” M. Arch. thesis, University of Maryland, 2014. https://doi.org/10.13016/M2Q908. Levering, Marijean Elizabeth. “None Shall Refuse: The History of the Players in Detroit, 1910 to the Present.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 2000. MacAuley, Mark. “Black Sinatras, White Panthers: Race, Genre, and Performance in Detroit Black Pop and Rock, 1960-1970.” MA Thesis, Dalhousie University, 2010. Mayer, Fred J. “The Jazz Process: Brass Bands to Swing Bands, Music in Detroit, 1850-1930.” MA Thesis, Michigan State University, 1994. McDavitt, Elaine E. “A History of the Theatre in Detroit, Michigan from Its Beginnings to 1862.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1947. Meneghel, David L. “A History of the Shubert Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, 1914-1965.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 1966. Miller, James Albert. “The Resident Yiddish Theater in Detroit from 1920 to 1937.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 1968. Mitchell, Scott. “Constitutive Memories of City Space: Rhetorics of Civil Rights Memory in Detroit’s Urban Landscape.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 2018. Murphy, Michael Duggan. “Detroit Blues Women.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 2011. Nordberg, Erik. “Personality over Policy: A Comparative History of the Founding and Early Development of Four Significant American Manuscript Repositories of Business, Industry, and Technology,” 2017.

Rodgers, James William. “The History of the Garrick Theater, Detroit, Michigan: 1909-1928.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 1968. Rutherford, Michael. “Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens Become Assets.” MA Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2013. Savaglio, Paula. “Polish-American Music in Detroit: Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, 1992. Schoberth, Leigh. “Detroit’s Historic Theaters: A Study of Significance and Reuse.” MA Thesis, Clemson University, 2014. Shanower, Donald Thomas. “A Comparative and Descriptive Study of Three Opera Houses in Southern Michigan, 1880-1900.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1960. Simpson, Donald E. “Civic Center and Cultural Center: The Grouping of Public Buildings in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit and the Emergence of the City Monumental in the Modern Metropolis.” Ph.D. diss., 2013. Smith, Suzanne E. “Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, 1963- 1973.” Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1996. Stovall, Maya. “Liquor Store Theatre: Ethnography & Contemporary Art In Detroit.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 2018. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1967. Swigger, Jessica. “‘History Is Bunk’: Historical Memories at Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 2008.