Acid Detroit tells the story of Motor City through its
revolutionary music past and present, in order to find the seeds of
radical transformation among its ruins.
**Acid Detroit is an exhilarating, technicolour view of Detroit's
musical and social history from the 1960s to the present day.
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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.
