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Film, Video Improvising a Musical Metropolis: Detroit, 1940s-1960s

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Transcript: TEXT

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Title

  • Improvising a Musical Metropolis: Detroit, 1940s-1960s

Summary

  • Ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin surveys his research on the musical life of his hometown, Detroit, Michigan, during "my day," the 1940s-60s. He positions his personal experience in the wider panorama of a musically dynamic city of recent immigrants from Europe and migrants from the American South, and addresses the role of the schools and subcultures in shaping Detroit's complex cultural landscape.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2016-05-12.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  music, popular music, Detroit, 1940-1970, Mark Slobin

Notes

  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Mark Slobin.
  • -  Recorded on 2016-05-12.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687557

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Improvising a Musical Metropolis: Detroit, s-1960s. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-12, 2016. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687557/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2016) Improvising a Musical Metropolis: Detroit, s-1960s. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-12. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687557/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Improvising a Musical Metropolis: Detroit, s-1960s. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-12, 2016. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687557/>.