Paradise Valley: Policy Banks, Eminent Domain and the Canceled U-M Center
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode treats Detroit's Black Bottom and Paradise Valley as a study in how policy builds a...
2 Nov 25min
Black Bottom: Savoyard River Mud, Hastings Street Jazz and the I-375 Trench
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Detroit's Black Bottom was named by French settlers for the dark, fertile soil left by the flood...
2 Nov 21min
Dancing in the Street: A Tire Iron, the Kinks' Flop and Bowie and Jagger
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dancing in the Street was written in 1964 by Marvin Gaye, William Mickey Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hu...
2 Nov 23min
Cindy Birdsong: A Freeway Leap, a Las Vegas Debut and a Conservatorship
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cindy Birdsong was born in 1939 in Mount Holly, New Jersey, grew up in Camden and was studying n...
2 Nov 20min
Chris Blackwell: Island Records, a Kilburn Basement and U2's $5 Million
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Chris Blackwell founded Island Records in Jamaica in 1959 with Graham Goodall and Leslie Kong, u...
2 Nov 19min
Diana Ross and Chic: How Days of Interviews Became Upside Down in 1980
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By 1980 Diana Ross was an Oscar nominated actress and former lead of the Supremes, known for Lad...
2 Nov 16min
Brick House: A Nigerian Government Seat, a Commodores Hit and a Wrestler
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode follows a single phrase, brick house, through a Wikipedia disambiguation page and a...
2 Nov 16min
Baby Love: Mike Valvano's Foot Stomps and the Supremes' UK No. 1 in 1964
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After Where Did Our Love Go became a smash in 1964, Berry Gordy told Brian Holland, Lamont Dozie...
2 Nov 19min
