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 . ..