Acid Detroit
A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music
by Joe Molloy
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Pub Date Apr 11 2023 | Archive Date Apr 21 2023
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Description
Acid Detroit is an exhilarating, technicolour view of Detroit’s musical and social history from the 1960s to the present day.
Redefining the counterculture as a time of Acid Communism, Acid Detroit diverges from most books on the Sixties, which centre on California, to show that Detroit was an unequalled hotbed of radical activism, urban unrest and sonic innovation.
Considering Detroit's unique mix of people and cultures and enduring sonic legacies, it covers everything from incendiary garage rock, to European-influenced techno and experimental hip-hop crews, intertwining the artist’s lives and works with the city’s rise and decline, from its establishment as an industrial powerhouse to the high point of Motor City, into its decline and tentative rebirth.
A mind-expanding tour through time and space that explores the lost possibilities, histories and hidden potentials of the city, Acid Detroit reveals a history of resilience and transformation hidden in the shadows of the abandoned factories and warehouses of the Motor City.
Advance Praise
"Resituating and extending Mark Fisher's concept of Acid Communism into vibrant new territory, Acid Detroit takes a clear passion for a city and its culture and reveals the radical political potentials that are to be found not only in its past but, perhaps even more importantly, in its present and proximate future."
Matt Colquhoun, author of Egress
"Through the toxic runoff of snowed-in flyover country and psychedelic outsiderism, Joe Molloy untangles the creative minds that go fast and furiously into new musical territories while honoring the decades of untouchable classics that came before. Acid Detroit is a music lover's insider look into the sublime joy of seeing time catch up to itself… we also never thought we'd see a mosh pit at a Gories show!"
Will Lorenz, The Stools
Joe's in-depth and emotionally charged writing, specifically about John Brannon's career, really pulls in and enraptures the reader. You can tell by the attention to detail how much research and heart has been put into this book on Detroit music.
Joey Hanania, Toeheads
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781914420511 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Petra R, Reviewer
'We almost lost Detroit'.
A fine-grained account of what makes the Motor City so important in musical terms. A city that has borne the blows of Fordist, post-Fordist, and almost apocalyptic political and economic experiment, but which has developed and nurtured a fiercely independent approach to art enabling it to punch way above its weight in the world.
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