The Birth of Detroit Sound: 1940 - 1964 Detroit Architecture The Arsenal of Democracy

The Arsenal of Democracy

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The Birth of Detroit Sound: 1940 - 1964 Detroit Architecture The Arsenal of Democracy"The Birth of the Detroit Sound: 1940 1964" By Marilyn Bond and S. R. Boland From the 1940s through the early 1960s, a new form of popular music was born in the United States one that would take the world by storm. Detroit disc jockey Alan Freed, among the very first to play and promote new music, christened it "Rock 'n Roll" from an old blues lyric. Detroit, like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Memphis, contributed its own