The magnet of good-paying factory jobs and the nurturing influence of an excellent public school music program helped make Detroit a hotbed of jazz and the hometown of many internationally famous musicians. This edition of Detroit History Podcast takes a look at when and how and why Detroit's music began to swing, and how generations of jazz stylists became an important cultural export. From the Graystone Ballroom to Miles Davis's rhythm section, and onward, Detroit has had a greater impact on America's native art form, jazz, than you might expect.
Season 6, Episode 6- The Edsel: The Road to Lemonville
Season 6, Episode 5- The Last Hanging in Detroit
Season 6, Episode 4- How the DIA Turned From a Private Art Collection Into a World-Renowned Museum
Season 6, Episode 3- Bird, Barry and Miles: The Blue Bird Inn during the 1950s
Season 6, Episode 2- The Polar Bears of World War 1
Season 6, Episode 1- The Sheik and Big Time Wrestling
The 1957 NFL Champion Detroit Lions Revisited
Season 5 Finale- The Development of PCP and Ketamine
Season 5, Episode 9- Fran Harris, The First Female Newscaster in Michigan
Season 5, Episode 8- A Century of Mexicantown
Season 5, Episode 7- The Biography of a Rumor: The "Paul McCartney is Dead" Hoax
Season 5, Episode 6- The Origins of Detroit Style Pizza
Season 5, Episode 5- The Michigan Democratic Social Club Triple Beheading
Season 5, Episode 4- The Native American Origins of Detroit
Season 5, Episode 3- The 1863 Civil War Riot
Season 5, Episode 2- The Ford Hunger March
Season 5, Episode 1- Joe Louis, The Punch of Detroit
Season 4 Finale- Jeff Montgomery, Detroit's Fierce LGBTQ+ Rights Activist
Season 4, Episode 9- When The Cold War Seemed Hot: Nike Missiles Around Metro Detroit, And A Nuclear Warhead On Belle Isle
Season 4, Episode 8- Hammerin' Hank Greenberg, How a Jewish Kid from the Bronx became a Detroit Tiger Great
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