Hastings Street Blues
Joe's Record Shop on Hastings Street, owner Joe Von Battle, and the blues music he loved, produced, and recorded illuminate the vitality and complexity of mid-20th century African American l... Read allJoe's Record Shop on Hastings Street, owner Joe Von Battle, and the blues music he loved, produced, and recorded illuminate the vitality and complexity of mid-20th century African American life in Detroit: the self-determination and ultimate displacement of a Black community in t... Read allJoe's Record Shop on Hastings Street, owner Joe Von Battle, and the blues music he loved, produced, and recorded illuminate the vitality and complexity of mid-20th century African American life in Detroit: the self-determination and ultimate displacement of a Black community in the midst of unprecedented migration, racial turmoil, civil rights progress, and urban "ren... Read all