We learned about the Music History of the city. Once again as they once were. We are in a place called 54 sound. We are in what a sickly is and still is the main music studio. Where George Clinton recorded a number of his albums. All of the music would come out of this room here. This is where the romantics recorded, and others to all over the years. Place. A pretty Iconic Detroit music does center around motown. Interestingly, motown is the middle of the story. A part of all the stories, of the other genres of music. Plays a big role in the sound of detroit. It is known for motown, but known around the world worse for some of these other areas as well. This is starting around the 1920s and into the 30s. Detroit was becoming the automotive epicenter. Before that detroit was a major manufacturing city. They were famous for ovens and even cigars and things like that. The car company turned into whenssembly line thats people started migrating up here. Musicians started to migrate up here from the and the motown people started to migrate up to detroit for jobs. You would have a number of musicians that would work at ford and then play their music at night. That became their career and so forth. Pepper adams was a big name. In the jazz world many of the became the funk brothers, the sound machine for jazzn came up as musicians, James Jamerson and earl van dyck. They have the Southern Roots as well. What happens with motown in detroit is barry gordy is a boxer, a songwriter, and he boxed on a bill we joe louis. Way down on the car but nonetheless. Then he felt this isnt so great. Eye. Getting my head beat in doing this and he already wrote songs and then report sons that Jackie Wilson recorded and had hits with, but he discovered that he was getting pennies on the record, and his good friend, smoky robinson, from detroit, the north end of detroit, they were tight together, and he said, you know, youre making a couple of pennies per record. Why dont you start your only thing and release these records . Thats how it starts. Starts looking for groups, starts looking the Detroit Public School system back then had great music programs. So he started scouting around for kids who were in the music programs and maybe had singing groups, the temptations, or the four tops, that had kind of groups guys that would stand on corners and sing and doo wop kind of groups and he would look for enemy in particular, and he onebyone started signing artists. Then motown is catching on now with white audiences, africanamerican audiences, all over the country, and everyone knows this is coming from detroit. I mean, quite frankly puts it on the map. After motown and motown still happening, then the sound becomes sort of what some people now refer to as the origin of actually punk music, with the mc5, the detroits kids from factory workers, downriver, and they start to tear the music or, lets say, deconstruct the music. And at that point with mc5 and guy and she stooges which were called the psych delis stooges, detroit becomes the epicenter of that kind of music, and a period of time everybody wanted to sign a detroit group. Now, thinking back to mow to barry was all over that and he signed everybody, but back then Record Companies were flooding into town after the mc5 were signed to electra, as was the stooges, and they all wanted, just like anything else in music, all want their Brittany Spears whatever. Came here floor the next mc5 and a lot of bands were signed to major labels and all these other groups start to come to the surface, and then things start to change from that. Are you ready to throw down. Mc5. Host the next music thing that starts to happen in late 70s is hiphop, rap. And theyre being inspired by the sugar hill gang and curtis and people from new york who were some of the early rappers. And they kind of start to build their own little scene here. And eventually that scene brings into contact kid rock, who started as a hiphop guy, and then of course Marshal Mathers who started here. Then it became then once emanymore eminem broke through, everybody wants to sign a hiphop group. Wanted to sign the next eminem but all the time that is happening in detroit, tech. Techno music started and they liked mixing different records and making sounds and connecting them and making them extended tracks for danceable things, and to play, and then the techno thing starts to erupt. So would say after the eminem fleury of hiphop groups takes place, then internationally the techno sound explodes. So internal family people are coming to detroit to find the techno sound. Locally i dont know. Seems like some of my studentses are techno people but not as many as youd think for being an epicenter, so i dont know if it ever here has caught on quite like motown did. Motown would be the pinnacle of detroit music development, but i think if you look its, you can see what comes before contributes and then what comes after connects back to it. Even with the mc5. They would do some in their own way, they would do some motown stuff. And they did some john lee hooker, did motor city is burning about the 67 uprising. They roadside that. And would perform that on a regular basis. So theres a lot of mixing, which really is what techno music is, mixing different kinds of music together. Thats the deal. You have to be innovative in detroit. So that creates a different kind of artist who is always thinking outside the box, and when you think back to jazz through techno all of those particular e general razz or music are happening in detroit because of people who think outside the box. Our staff recently traveled to detroit in michigan to learn about its rich history. To watch more video from detroit , visit cspan. Org seats cities tour. All weekend every weekend on cspan3. A portion of the 1968 film the second largest minority, by producer and director lilli vincenz. Joining us is charles francis, the president of the Mattachine Society of washington, d. C. , which is what . Mr. Francis we are an lgbt history society. With a motto of archive activism