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2019-2020 Humanities Center Brown Bag Series FREE AND OPEN Hastings Street Blues Project TO THE PUBLIC By 1943, when Detroit became the epicenter of the nation’s largest wartime race riot, Hastings Street had already emerged as the vibrant Tuesday , February 4, 2020 center of business and commerce for the city’s burgeoning African American Community. But 12:30PM—1:30PM by 1960, it had become a ghost town—giving Rm. 2339 way to construction for the new Interstate, I-75. Hastings Street Blues is a documentary work-in- Faculty Administration Building progress that will examine mid-20th Century African American life in Detroit and the city’s pre-Motown music legacy. The blues and its duality of hope and hard times becomes a driving narrative, and metaphor for the film’s parallel themes of self-determination and community displacement. Hastings Street record shop owner and record producer, Joe Von Battle becomes the central character who weaves these themes together. The writings and performances of his daughter, Kresge Literary Fellow Marsha Music, inform his story, as will the first person accounts of those who knew him, archival images and the music he recorded. Filmmaker Juanita Anderson addresses the process of developing this documentary feature film, and ponders the relationship between present-day physical Photo Credit: Joe Von Battle in front of his place, collective memory and forgetfulness. Hastings Street record shop c. 1955 Juanita Anderson is Senior Lecturer and Area Head of Media Arts and Studies in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University. A veteran film/television producer and documentary filmmaker, she is Juanita Anderson the university’s 2019-2020 Murray E. Jackson Communication Senior Lecturer and 2019-20 Creative Scholar in the Arts. Murray E. Jackson University Photo Credit: Emmy Perryman Creative Scholar in the Arts For more info about the Humanities Center, call (313) 577-5471 or visit https://research2.wayne.edu/hum/.

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