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Living for the City

by Side Stage

Before Detroit gave the world Motown, techno, and hip-hop, it gave the world something harder to name: a feeling that music made in basements and backrooms and borrowed spaces could become the soundtrack to an entire generation's life. That is the story Living for the City is here to tell, and nobody alive is better equipped to tell it than Hanif Abdurraqib. MacArthur Fellow. New York Times bestselling author. The most gifted writer working at the intersection of music, memory, and American identity today. Hanif brings his singular voice to a new video podcast series that goes inside the…

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Living for the City presents a full-length interview between host Hanif Abdurraqib and Liz Warner, an award-winning journalist and host of Alternate Take on WDET (Detroit's NPR affiliate). The 52-minute conversation explores Detroit radio's cultural significance and Warner's philosophy of radio as a state of mind and…

Worth it if you care about Detroit music history, radio culture, techno's origins, or how DJs and radio personalities shape musical discovery.

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