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The culture of Detroit, Michigan, has been closely associated with various forms of popular music in the 20th century, notably with Motown. The city's culture has also been associated with the automobile, as well as by the large role industrial plays in the city's economy. Nickname: Motor City, Motown, Hockey Town Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Official website: www. ...
Motown, also known as Tamla-Motown outside the U.S., is a record label founded on December 14, 1959 by Berry Gordy, Jr. ...
Music and performing arts
The Fisher Building, located in the City's New Center area, home to the Fisher Theatre. - Main article: Music of Detroit
Music has been the dominant feature of Detroit's nightlife since the late 1940s. The metropolitan area boasts two of the top live music venues in the U.S. DTE Energy Music Theatre (formerly Pine Knob) was the most attended summer venue in the U.S. in 2005 for the fifteenth consecutive year, while The Palace of Auburn Hills ranked twelfth, according to music industry source Pollstar.[1] Detroit is home to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Detroit Opera House. Major theaters include the Fox Theatre, Masonic Temple Theatre, and the Fisher Theatre. Image File history File linksMetadata Fisher_Building,_Detroit. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Fisher_Building,_Detroit. ...
Detroit is renowned for its musical heritage, a long and rich history that includes Motown Records, which produced such hometown stars as Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations and the Four Tops. ...
// Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ...
The DTE Energy Music Theatre (originally Pine Knob Music Theatre) is a 15,274-seat amphitheater located in Independence Township, Michigan. ...
The Palace of Auburn Hills is a sports venue in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan that is home of the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association and the Detroit Shock of the WNBA. Previously, the franchise had played its home games in the Pontiac Silverdome, a venue...
Pollstar is the worlds largest resource for international concert tour information. ...
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) was founded in 1914. ...
The Fox Theatre in downtown Detroit, Michigan is a historic Roaring Twenties theater. ...
The Fisher Building Built in 1928, the Fisher Building has been nicknamed Detroits largest art object. Sitting on the corner of West Grand Boulevard and Second Street in Detroit, Michigan, the Art Deco skyscraper lies in the heart of the New Center area of Detroit. ...
Through the 1950's Detroit was a jazz center with stars of the era often came to Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood to perform.[2] One highlight of Detroit's musical history was Motown Records success during the 1960s and early 1970s, founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy, Jr. and home to popular recording acts including Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross & the Supremes. Also during the late 1960s, Detroiter Aretha Franklin became America's preeminent female soul artist, recording on the competing Atlantic Records label. Image File history File links Motown. ...
Image File history File links Motown. ...
Motown, also known as Tamla-Motown outside the U.S., is a record label founded on December 14, 1959 by Berry Gordy, Jr. ...
This article refers to the neighborhood. ...
Motown, also known as Tamla-Motown outside the U.S., is a record label founded on December 14, 1959 by Berry Gordy, Jr. ...
The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
Berry Gordy, Jr. ...
Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. ...
Stevie Wonder (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Judkins, later changed to Stevland Morris) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, musician, humanitarian and social activist. ...
This article is about the American musician. ...
The Supremes were a very successful Motown all-female singing group active from 1959 until 1977, performing at various times doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway showtunes, psychedelia, and disco. ...
The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an iconic American gospel, soul and R&B singer born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Detroit, Michigan. ...
Soul music is a combination of rhythm and blues and gospel which began in the late 1950s in the United States. ...
Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is a record label founded in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson, principally as a R&B label. ...
In the late 1960s, Metro Detroit also spawned a high-energy rock scene with (MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges), the precursors of the punk rock movement. Rock acts from southeast Michigan that enjoyed success in the 1970s were Bob Seger, Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes, Alice Cooper, The Romantics and Grand Funk Railroad as well as recent acts Kid Rock, The White Stripes, and The Von Bondies. The Detroit area is also generally accepted as the birthplace of the Techno movement, which has grown from local radio and clubs to dance venues worldwide. Detroit is more recently home to many hip-hop artists such as Aaliyah, Eminem, Royce Da 5'9" Teairra Mari, Obie Trice,Trick Trick, D-12, Rock Bottom, Street Lord'z and the late Blade Icewood, Slum Village. The MC5 wearing White Panther Party buttons The MC5 was a hard rock band that came out of Detroit, USA in 1966, and was an important precursor of and influence on punk rock (see protopunk). ...
The Stooges 1969 debut Not to be confused with The Three Stooges. ...
Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
Bob Seger Robert Clark Bob Seger (born May 6, 1945 in Dearborn, Michigan) is an American rock musician who achieved his greatest success in the 1970s and 1980s, but whose music continues to be influential today. ...
Ted Nugent performs at a USO concert at Naval Support Activity, Naples, Italy, June 1, 2004 Ted Nugent (born December 13, 1948) aka the Nuge, the Motor City Madman, and most recently Uncle Ted is a guitarist from Detroit, Michigan, originally gaining fame as a member of the Amboy Dukes...
A Detroit-based rock band, best remembered for their hit single Journey to the Center of the Mind, the Amboy Dukes also launched the career of the Motorcity Madman, Ted Nugent. ...
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a hard rock singer and musician. ...
The cover photo of the Romantics self-titled 1980 debut album, featuring the band in its notorious red leather suits. ...
Grand Funk Railroad is an American power trio band. ...
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The White Stripes are an American minimalist blues-rock duo from Detroit, composed of Jack White on guitar, piano and lead vocals, and Meg White on drums. ...
The Von Bondies are a garage rock/blues band from Detroit, Michigan. ...
Techno is a form of electronic music that became prominent in Detroit, during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ...
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), better known simply as her stage name Aaliyah, was an American R&B singer, dancer, fashion model and actress. ...
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972) is an American rapper best known by the stage name Eminem. ...
Ryan Montgomery also known as Royce Da 59 (born July 5, 1977) is an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan. ...
Teairra Marà Teairra Marà (born December 2, 1987 in Detroit, Michigan), now 17, began her young career at age 12, recording in her cousins basement. ...
Obie Trice is a rapper born in Detroit, Michigan on November 14, 1977 to Eleanor Trice, a single mother. ...
Trick-Trick on the cover of (2005) Trick Trick also known as Christian Mathis is Rap artist from Detroit. ...
D12 (also known as The Dirty Dozen and D-Twizzy) are an American hip-hop group originating from Detroit, Michigan which have had albums reach the top of the US, AUS and UK album charts - Devils Night in 2001 and D12 World in 2004. ...
Rock Bottom Entertainment is a record label founded in Detroit, Michigan in June 1997 by founder and C.E.O., Rafael Rock Howard. ...
Street Lordz debut album Rollies Dont Tic Toc (1998) Street Lordz (a. ...
Blade Icewood (real name Darnell Quincy Lyndsey, 1977-2005), was a Detroit-based rap artist slain in gang-related violence on April 19, 2005. ...
Slum Village circa 2000 Slum Village is the name of a hip hop duo from Detroit, Michigan. ...
In the 1960s, before widespread rock music exposure in national media, Detroit-area radio stations (especially CKLW with its powerful signal) were instrumental in propelling many musical acts to national stardom.[3] The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
CKLW is a 50,000 watt AM radio station broadcasting at 800 kHz located in Windsor, Ontario. ...
Food & events
 A view looking south down Brush Street at the Renaissance Center (rear left) and the Wayne County Building (right). The giant decal on the Renaissance Center was installed for the 2005 MLB All-Star Game. It is 4,612 feet (1,375 m) from the home plate in Comerica Park to the main tower of the Renaissance Center. Detroit has three major events that are associated with the automobile industry: the North American International Auto Show (January), Society of Automotive Engineers world congress (April) and the Woodward Dream Cruise (August). Annual music events in the city include the DEMF/Movement/Fuse-In electronic music festival (May), Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival (September), and the Concert of Colors, a summer music festival. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 2308 KB)A view looking south down Brush Street at the Renaissance Center (rear left) and the Wayne County Building (right) in Detroit, Michigan. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 2308 KB)A view looking south down Brush Street at the Renaissance Center (rear left) and the Wayne County Building (right) in Detroit, Michigan. ...
A United States Coast Guard Cutter passes the Renaissance Center. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the Midsummer Classic, is an annual exhibition baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by fan vote for the position players and by the manager for pitchers. ...
Comerica Park is a baseball stadium located in downtown Detroit, Michigan. ...
NAIAS 2005, near the Audi exhibit. ...
The Society of Automotive Engineers is a professional organisation and standards body for the engineering of powered vehicles of all kinds - cars, trucks, boats, aircraft and more. ...
Woodward Dream Cruise crowd in 2004, the 10th anniversary Vintage hotrods abound at this event The Woodward Dream Cruise is a classic car festival held annually on the third Saturday of August. ...
The Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) was a successful electronic dance music showcase held in Detroit each Memorial Day weekend from 2000 to 2002. ...
The Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival is a jazz music festival held each year in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Until 2000, it was known as the Detroit-Montreaux Jazz Festival. ...
Sponsored by an Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services or ACCESS. Every year it has a very diverse offering of music including Afro Pop, celtic, soul, indie rock, blue grass, you name it. ...
The Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival features a fireworks display over the Detroit River and coincides with U.S. Independence day (July 4) and Canada Day (July 1). The Comerica Tastefest and Detroit Thunder Fest hydroplane race take place in July. Detroit Fashion Week happens in August. The America's Thanksgiving Parade, previously names the Hudson's Thanksgiving Day Parade, is one of the nation's largest and has been held continuously since 1924.[4] After poor management and inclement weather caused great losses in 2003, this festival no longer exists in its usual form on the Windsor side of the border. ...
In the United States, Independence Day, also called the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. ...
Annually on Canada Day, festivities abound: in Ottawa, the national capital, celebrations on Parliament Hill include the Musical Ride of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. ...
The Comerica Tastefest is an annual five-day street festival that occurs around Independence Day weekend in the New Center district of Detroit. ...
A hydroplane (or hydro, or thunderboat) is a very specific type of motorboat used exclusively for racing. ...
Detroit Fashion Week is a week long event that exhibits Michigan clothing designers and showcases modeling talent in the Detroit, Michigan region. ...
The day before Ash Wednesday, or the festival of Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday, is more frequently celebrated locally as "Paczki Day" by the large Polish population. Many Metro Detroiters join in the festivity by indulging in jelly-filled donuts called paczkis.[5] In the Western Christian calendar, Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. ...
Mardi Gras (French for Fat Tuesday) is the day before Ash Wednesday, and is also called Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day. It is the final day of Carnival (English:IPA: and Romance languages:IPA: ). It is a celebration that is held just before the beginning of the Christian liturgical season...
In the Christian calendar, Shrove Tuesday is the English name for the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which in turn marks the beginning of Lent. ...
The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
Founded in 1907 by two Russian immigrant brothers in Detroit, Faygo soda (universally referred to as "pop" in the Detroit area) remains a Detroit tradition. Detroit was also the birthplace of Vernors ginger ale, the longest-surviving soft drink in the United States, Better Made potato chips and the Coney Island restaurant.[6] Faygo or Faygo Pop is a soft drink brand that is popular throughout the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S.. Since Faygo is a lesser-known brand, its products tend to be inexpensive. ...
Detroits Vernors ginger ale is Americas oldest soft drink, invented in 1866 by James Vernor, a Detroit pharmacist. ...
Ginger ale is a soft drink flavored with ginger. ...
A Coney Island is a type of restaurant popular in the Midwestern United States, particularly in the area surrounding Detroit, Michigan, as well as the name for the chili dog after which the restaurant was named. ...
See also The city of Detroit, USA has had a large and thriving black community since the 1920s, when many African Americans moved to northern cities to find work in the then-booming industrial sector. ...
Detroit, Michigan, and its suburbs, is the setting for a number of novels and short story collections, including: Harriette Arnow, The Dollmaker 1954 Jim Ray Daniels, Detroit Tales 2003 Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides 1993 and Middlesex 2002 Arthur Hailey, Wheels 1971 Gary Hardwick, The Executioners Game 2005 William...
Detroit, Michigan, USA is a setting and/or filming location for several Hollywood feature films including: Four Brothers, John Singleton. ...
References - ↑ DTE Energy Music Theatre Listed as 2004 Top Attended Amphitheatre (1/25/05. DTE Energy Music Theatre.
- ↑ Herb Boyd (9/17/97) Cookin' in the Motor City. The Metro Times.
- ↑ Introduction to The Classic CKLW Page. Thebig8.net.
- ↑ Everyone Loves a Parade. The Parade Company.
- ↑ Robert Strybel (2/5/01). Polish fast food in America?. polartcenter.com.
- ↑ Kim Silarski (5/22/03).Insider Tips. USA Today.
External links - City of Detroit - Culture and Entertainment
- MotorCityRocks.com:Chronicles the Detroit music scene
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