Contents

Foreword by Duke Fakir ...... xiii Introduction by M. L. Liebler and Jim Daniels...... xv

I. Detroit Jazz. Par adise Valley Days

Mark James Andrews | Shot 3 Silenced the Singer: Th e Murder...... 3 Glen Armstrong | Th e Last DJ ...... 000 Peter Balakian | Joe Louis’s Fist...... 000 Melba Joyce Boyd | A Mingus Among Us and a Walden Within Us...... 000 | Blow Marcus Blow ...... 000 | Th e Bass Is Woman ...... 000 | Working It Out...... 000 Writer L. Bush | A Love Supreme ...... 000 Ginny Carr | He Was Th e Cat (A Tribute to Eddie Jeff erson) ...... 000 Esperanza Cintrón | Music -3 Th e African World Festival ...... 000 David Cope | River Rouge ...... 000 Diane DeCillis | Th e Girl from Ipanema Visits Detroit, 1964 ...... 000 Toi Derricotte | Blackbottom ...... 000 Bob “Detroit Count” White | Hastings Street Opera (Part One)...... 000 Aurora Harris | So Beautiful 9/5/2016 5:45 a.m...... 000 Bill Harris | Ron Carter: Th e Pulse in Autumn ...... 000 Kaleema Hasan | Lost Bird: Take 2 ...... 000 Kim D. Hunter | the sound before ...... 000 George Kalamaras | Every Note You Play is a Blue Note ...... 000 James E. Kenyon | Autumn Leaves ...... 000 Michael Lauchlan | Raptor...... 000 Philip Levine | I Remember Cliff ord ...... 000 | Th e Wrong Turn ...... 000 | Above Jazz...... 000 | On Th e Corner ...... 000 M. L. Liebler | Th e Jazz ...... 000 Sonya Marie Pouncy | Musing I: Her Inspiration ...... 000 Eugene B. Redmond | Kwansaba: Rolling Late Sixties–Style Ntu Motor City . 000 John G. Rodwan Jr. | JC on the Set ...... 000 John Sinclair | “bags’ groove” ...... 000 Keith Taylor | Detroit Dancing, 1948...... 000 Chris Tysh | By any means necessary ...... 000 George Tysh | JAZZ ...... 000 Rayfi eld A. Waller | Th is is Faruq Bey on His Bike ...... 000 Barry Wallenstein | Julian ...... 000 Tyrone Williams | How Like An Angel ...... 000 Willie Williams | Th e Baron...... 000 Al Young | Detroit 1958 ...... 000 | Who I am in Twilight ...... 000

II. Detroit Blues. Hastings Street Opera

Arthur “Blind” Blake | Detroit Bound ...... 000 Fats Domino | Detroit City Blues ...... 000 Robin Eichele | 28 December 1965 ...... 000 | Blues Scholars at Work ...... 000 Bryn Fortey | Hey Th ere Blues ...... 000 Robert Hayden | Homage to the Empress of the Blues ...... 000 | Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday ...... 000 Robert B. Jones Sr. | Arnesia’s Song ...... 000 | Th e Poor Man’s Promised Land ...... 000 Ken Meisel | John Lee Hooker’s Boogie Chillun ...... 000 Ron Milner | From the Porches ...... 000 John Sims | D-City Blues ...... 000 III. Northern Soul. Dancing in the Streets

David Blair | DETROIT (while i was away) ...... 000 Heather Bourbeau | Th ank you, Berry Gordy ...... 000 Billy Bragg | Levi Stubbs’ Tears ...... 000 Charles W. Brice | Setting Up Soul—1968 ...... 000 L. Soul Brown | Oh! Mercy Mercy Me! A Family Gathers to Marvin Gaye . . . 000 Desiree Cooper | Come See About Me ...... 000 iBRAHIM dEATHRAY | Dec 4, 2014, m e r c y...... 000 Sean Thomas Dougherty | One Nation Under a Groove ...... 000 Rita Dove | Golden Oldie ...... 000 Cornelius Eady | Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Hat ...... 000 | Th e Supremes ...... 000 W. D. Ehrhart | Dancing in the Streets ...... 000 Thomas Sayers Ellis | Photograph of Dr. Funkenstein ...... 000 Robert Fanning | Memorial in Open Air ...... 000 Linda Nemec Foster | Dancing with My Sister ...... 000 Stewart Francke | Motor City Serenade ...... 000 Christopher Gilbert | Time with Stevie Wonder in It ...... 000 Brian Gilmore | living for the city (for stevie wonder)...... 000 Nikki Giovanni | Poem for Aretha ...... 000 Jessica Hagedorn | Motown/Smokey Robinson ...... 000 Peter J. Harris | Some Songs Women Sing ...... 000 Lolita Hernandez | Silver Anniversary ...... 000 Dennis Hinrichsen | Radio Motown ...... 000 Edward Hirsh | Let’s Get Off the Bus...... 000 Lynda Hull | Chiff on...... 000 David James | Floating ...... 000 Mark Jarman | Th e Supremes ...... 000 Allison Joseph | Junior High Dance ...... 000 | Paradelle for Motown ...... 000 Lawrence Joseph | Sentimental Education ...... 000 Zilka Joseph | To the Man Leaning Forward...... 000 M. L. Liebler | Rhythm and Blues Fire ...... 000 Dawn McDuffi e | Dear Detroit Earthquake ...... 000 Ray McNiece | Pop Songs through the Night ...... 000 Wardell Montgomery Jr. | Michael Was Unique ...... 000 K. Michelle Moran | Help Wanted ...... 000 Cindy Hunter Morgan | Incident on Grand River, 1967...... 000 Scott Morgan | Detroit ...... 000 Thylias Moss | Vashti’s First Plane Ride to Manhattan from Detroit Metro Airport ...... 000 Dahveed Nelson | into the streets ...... 000 Richard Peabody | Marvin’s Voice ...... 000 Lisa Jane Recker | I Wanna Testify ...... 000 Robbie Robertson | Somewhere Down the Crazy River ...... 000 Judith Roche | Detroit Music ...... 000 John G. Rodwan Jr. | More than Motown ...... 000 Lisa Rutledge | New School Year ...... 000 James Scully | Motown ...... 000 Larry Smith | Bo Diddley Died Today—Hey, Bo Diddley ...... 000 Patricia Smith | Motown Crown ...... 000 | A Colored Girl Will Slice You If You Talk Wrong About Motown . . 000 Kevin Stein | Upon Finding a Black Woman’s Door Sprayed with Swastikas . . 000 Rodney Torreson | Since You Always Th rew Yourself Out Th ere, David Ruffi n ...... 000 David Trinidad | Meet Th e Supremes ...... 000 George Tysh | Vintage Soul ...... 000 Crystal Williams | Parable of Divas: Aretha Franklin & Diana Ross ...... 000 | Homecoming ...... 000 Baron Wormser | Soul Music ...... 000

IV. Detroit Rocks. Kick Out the Jams

Jan Beatty | Love Poem w/Strat ...... 000 | Love Poem w/Strat #2...... 000 Ben Blackwell (The Dirt Bombs) | Th e Nain Rouge ...... 000 | Bury My Body at Elmwood ...... 000 Hayan Charara | Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” on the Radio in Winter ...... 000 Andrei Codrescu | String City ...... 000 Jim Daniels | “School’s Out,” Alice Cooper, 1972 ...... 000 | Patti Smith at the Punch and Judy Th eater ...... 000 | Detroit Hymns, Christmas Eve...... 000 Mark Donovan | Finding Culture/Saturday Night ...... 000 Don Duprie | what am I supposed to do...... 000 Elizabeth Ellen | Target ...... 000 Linda Nemec Foster | History of Sweat ...... 000 John Freeman | Visiting the Inside Outlaws in River Rouge, MI ...... 000 Tino Gross | I Almost Played with Th e Stooges ...... 000 Jim Gustafson | Tales of the MC5 ...... 000 | Jukebox...... 000 | Final Wish ...... 000 Joe Henry | Written ...... 000 Brooke Horvath | I Th ought We’d Never Get Over Th at First Album ...... 000 John Jeffi re | sonnit: i luv you suzi quarto...... 000 George Kalamaras | Fift een Hundred Miles (Th rough the Eye of a Beatle) . . . 000 Christina Kallery | On the List ...... 000 | Burnouts ...... 000 Wayne Kramer | Back to Detroit ...... 000 Jan Krist | State of Sin ...... 000 John D. Lamb | Th e Day’s Last Cigarette: A Tobacco Memoir Poem ...... 000 Gerry LaFemina | Th e American Ruse ...... 000 Gordon Lightfoot | Black Day in July ...... 000 Rachel Loden | Tumbling Dice...... 000 Art Lyzak | SO AMERICAN...... 000 | AFRAID OF DETROIT ...... 000 Peter Markus | On Turning Fift y-Two ...... 000 Adrian Matejka | From the Edge of the World...... 000 Ken Mikolowski | At the Grande Ballroom 1968 ...... 000 Scott Morgan | 16 With a Bullet...... 000 Nancy J. Rodwan | Night Moves ...... 000 | Waiting on the Revolution...... 000 Corie Rosen | Madonna for the Damned—a 1980s Heroine...... 000 Raquel Salaysay | Mutants and Monsters, Pillows and Truncheons: A Garage Punk Reunion ...... 000 Ed Sanders | Going to a Meeting on Bank Street ...... 000 | Ten Years for Two Joints for John Sinclair ...... 000 Patty Seyburn | Wild One ...... 000 Paul Simon | Papa Hobo ...... 000 Fred “Sonic” Smith | Sister Anne ...... 000 | City Slang ...... 000 Carolyn Striho | City Music Lights ...... 000 Russell Thorburn | Woodward Avenue on the Bus Downtown the Bus Driver Turns around to Say...... 000 Thomas Trimble | Muscle Car...... 000 Rob Tyner | Grande Daze ...... 000 Andrew Vinstra | Detroit Rock & Roll 2 am Séance for Jesus ...... 000 Jack White | Courageous Dream’s Concern ...... 000 Michael Zadoorian | Th e Jams...... 000

V. Hip Hop into Techno. Lose Yourself with The Belleville 3

Eminem | Eight Mile ...... 000 | Lose Yourself ...... 000 Sasha Frere-Jones | Haiku for Eminem ...... 000 Brian “Champtown” Harmon | Armageddon ...... 000 The Electrifying Mojo (Charles Johnson) | Th e Painting ...... 000 June Jordan | Owed to Eminem ...... 000 Janice A. Lowe | Whazzup Nod 2 Cybotron Cosmic Cars ...... 000 Nandi Comer | Detroit Tells Its Techno Story...... 000 | Dear Derrick ...... 000 A’leetzia Burns | Between Dexter and Linwood ...... 000 A’leetzia Burns, Ashley Rae, Nandi Comer, and Terrell Morrow | My Body as a Spaceship ...... 000 Hajjar Baban, A’leetzia Burns, Ashley Rae, Nandi Comer, and Marrim Akashi | A Meditation on Music ...... 000 Franziska Ruprecht | Detroit ...... 000 epilogue. What the World (and Bob Dylan) Learned from Detroit Music by Lawrence Joseph ...... 000

Further Reading...... 000 About the Contributors ...... 000 Credits...... 000 Index ...... 000