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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Detroıt Jazz; A Top-Down Motown Bebop Pubescence: Twelve Takes; Bebop in Detroit: Nights at the Blue Bird Inn; The Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Quintet: Jazz in Detroit, 1958-61; Teddy Harris: A Jazz Man in Motown; Rebirth of Tribe; Strata Records; Roy Brooks: Detroit Downbeat; Musician Interrupted: Faruq Z. Bey; 2. Detroit Blues; Alberta, Alberta: The Alberta Adams Story; John Lee Hooker and Joe Von Battle: No Magic, Just Men; Searching for the Son: Delta Blues Legend Son House in Detroit.
  • Johnnie Bassett: Cadillac Bluesman from the Motor CityMotor City Blues through the Ages; 3. Early Detroit Soul: The Pre-Motown Sounds; Fortune Records for Truly Great Music; Nathaniel Mayer in the Twenty-First Century; Back in Detroit City with Andre Williams; Jack Scott: Detroit's Unsung Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer; Two Detroit Music Icons and Two Classic Theaters: Artie Fields and Harry Balk; Nine Times out of Ten: The Clix Records Story; 4. Motown: The Sound of Young America; The Story of Hitsville: Motown Days.
  • For Beans: Written on the Occasion of the Funeral Service for Dr. Thomas "Beans" Bowles Sr., February 5, 2000, at Central United Methodist ChurchHalf a Mile from Heaven: The Love Songs of Motown; Waiting for Smokey Robinson; Flo Ballard: The Love Supreme; Mary Wells, "My Guy," and the Queen of Motown; An Elegant Equation: Changing World, Changing Motown; The Revolution Will Be Recorded: Black Forum Records: Detroit Rarity of the Revolution; Excerpt from What's Going On: Marvin Gaye and the Last Days of the Motown Sound; The Motortown Revues: An Edited Excerpt from The Story of Motown.
  • Detroit, My Detroit5. Detroit Rocks: The '60s: Kick Out the Jams; DKT/MC5: The Truest Possible Testimonial; Robin Tyner: Early Days/Final Days; Amboy Duke; The Story of Detroit's Third Power Band; Bob Seger: The Early Years; Seger Unsettled; The Rationals; Strange Früt: An East-Side Story of the Früt; Strange Mysterious Sounds: The Demise of Ted Lucas and the Spike-Drivers; 6. Detroit Rocks into the '70s and Beyond: From Everyone Loves Alice to Cass Corridor Punk to Death; Alice Cooper All American: A Horatio Alger Story for the '70s.
  • Twenty-Five Years of Creem: Kiss and Not Tell, or Confessions of One of the Film FoxesWho Is the Sugar Man?; Dangerous Diane: Detroit Art Rock and Punk in the Late '70s; A Band Called Death; How the Gories Ruined Music; Kid Rock before the Fame: The Definitive Oral History; Kid Rock: From Apple Orchards to the World; Cathouse: The Cass Corridor's Last Great Band; 7. Hip-Hop, Ghettotech, Donuts, and Techno Dreams; Frankly Speaking: Awesome Dre's Outspoken Detroit; Eminem in 2002; Eminem: A Detroit Story; Inner-City Blues: The Story of Detroit Techno; For Dilla's Sake and the Love of Donuts.