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Subject: Music created in the Motor City
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:06:29 -0500
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Re:sounding Detroit: a comparative presentation and discussion of music
created in the Motor City
Presented by the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, and sponsored by
Wayne State University's Honors Program.
www.caidonline.org
Participants: Lars Bjorn, Ben Edmonds & Dan Sicko (information below)
Panel Moderator: Liz Copeland (WDET and CAID)
Saturday, November 23rd, 3-5 pm
Bernath Auditorium inside the David Adamany Undergraduate Library on the
campus of Wayne State University
Free and open to the public
Book signing to follow event
Synopsis of the idea behind Re:sounding Detroit:
Re:sounding Detroit is an attempt to discover the common points between the
various music forms to emerge out of Detroit. It's a city whose sounds have
reverberated from our own back yards to around the world: jazz, blues,
Motown, rock, electronic and beyond - earning Detroit the reputation of
being an acclaimed music city. What are the factors that have given Detroit
this common art form across generations, expressed in such varied and unique
ways?
With the aid of sound and visuals, each presenter will examine the
relationship between music and culture (and subculture) applicable to the
era. The forum will conclude with a comparative, mediated discussion between
all participants.
Participant Information:
Lars Bjorn. Lars Bjorn is a Professor of Sociology at the University of
Michigan-Dearborn campus, as well as author of Before Motown: A History of
Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60 (University of Michigan Press 2001). He has
published "From Hastings Street to the Bluebird: The blues and jazz
traditions in Detroit" (Michigan Quarterly Review 1986) and is the author of
numerous articles on jazz in Detroit. Joining Bjorn from the audience will
be his collaborator on Before Motown, Jim Gallert.
Ben Edmonds. Originally from the New England area, Ben Edmonds has been a
Detroiter since 1968. He's since become an accomplished music journalist, as
an editor for the legendary Creem magazine up until today's position of US
editor for the UK-based Mojo magazine - while contributing to several
publications in between including Rolling Stone, New Musical Express & The
Los Angeles Times. Edmonds has written liner notes for many, including the
relatively recent reissue of Love's Forever Changes and the Deluxe Edition
of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, which will be acknowledged with the ASCAP
Deems Taylor Award presented at Lincoln Center in New York this December.
Edmonds is the author of What's Going On (Mojo Books/Canongate 2001), an
unauthorized biography of Marvin Gaye.
Dan Sicko. A Detroit native, Dan Sicko has been writing about techno music
for over ten years. In fact, techno music inspired him to write in the first
place, ultimately making him change his profession in 1996 and take on
copywriting and advertising full-time. But he never stopped writing about
music, his articles appearing in publications such as Wired, Rolling Stone,
Urb and his own online techno magazine Reverb. In 1997 Sicko proposed the
idea of a book about the history of techno - the first from an American (not
to mention Detroit) perspective. Publisher of Urb magazine Raymond Leon
Roker has said about Sicko's book Techno Rebels (Billboard Books) published
in 1999, "Dan Sicko demonstrates an acute awareness of the racial, cultural,
and historical implications of the late twentieth century's digital
soundtrack, exploring it with a depth that few have captured in print."
Media sponsors for LINK include WDET-FM 101.9 Detroit Public Radio and Metro
Times.
Visit the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit on the world wide web at
http://www.caidonline.org
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