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Detroit arts and Culture2009 Michigan Notable Book!As selected by the Library of MichiganWhen the ChurchBecomes Your PartyContemporary Gospel MusicDeborah Smith Pollard“Pollard’s book is an important companionfor gospel music historians,announcers, and enthusiasts who wantto better understand the connectionbetween today’s gospel music and itsantecedents.”—The Black Gospel BlogPollard looks at contemporary gospelmusic with the insider’s perspectiveshe has acquired through her work asa successful gospel concert producerand host of a popular Sunday morninggospel show on Detroit’s FM 98 WJLB.Among the topics she considers arepraise and worship music, gospel musicalstage plays, the changing dresscode of gospel performance, womengospel announcers, and holy hip hop.2008 / 6 x 9 / 240 pp / 33 illusISBN 978-0-8143-3218-4$24.95s paperAfrican American Life SeriesIt Was All RightMitch Ryder’s Life in MusicJames A. MitchellWith a Foreword by Mitch Ryder“An intimate, spot-on look at the worldof rock, celebrity, and Detroit’s continuingcontribution to world culture.—Loren D. EstlemanCollects an impressive array of anecdotesfrom Ryder’s extraordinary lifein music.2008 / 7 x 8 / 248 pp / 27 illusISBN 978-0-8143-3337-2$24.95l clothA Painted Turtle bookTechno RebelsThe Renegades of ElectronicFunkSecond Edition,Revised and UpdatedDan SickoWith a Foreword by Bill Brewster“As techno, the music, continues tospread worldwide, and techno, theidea, becomes slipperier with theyears, Dan Sicko’s thorough, intimateaccount of the music’s origins is morerelevant than ever.—Philip Sherburne, columnist for TheWire and Pitchfork2010 / 6 x 9 / 176 pp / 13 illusISBN 978-0-8143-3438-6$19.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3712-7 eA Painted Turtle bookA Newscast for theMassesThe History of DetroitTelevision NewsTim Kiska“Kiska has exhausted all availabledata and added to it with the manyinterviews he has conducted himself.The people who lived it are tellingthe story.”—Jane Briggs-Bunting, director andprofessor of journalism at the MichiganState University School of JournalismKiska shows how the local news becamethe cornerstone of televisionprogramming and the public’s preferrednews source, from the 1940sto present.2009 / 6 x 9 / 224 pp / 37 illusISBN 978-0-8143-3302-0$24.95t paperGreat Lakes Books SeriesDetroit’s EasternMarketA Farmers Market Shoppingand Cooking GuideLois Johnson and Margaret ThomasPhotographs by Bruce HarknessHistory of the market and shoppingguide updated with personal accountsof families who have worked andshopped there for as many as fourgenerations. Also features more than80 pages of delightful recipes.2005 / 6 x 9 / 168 pp / 16 illus / 1 mapISBN 978-0-8143-3274-0$19.95l paperA Painted Turtle bookTelling Our StoryThe Arab American NationalMuseumA mix of essays from communityleaders and full-color photographsdetails the often challenging processof creating and sustaining the ArabAmerican National Museum and alsoguides readers through the museum’sthree thematic installations.“Coming to America” examines thehistory of Arab American immigrationfrom 1500 until the present, with anemphasis on immigration since the1880s. “Living in America” focuses onthe life of Arab Americans in the UnitedStates during different historical periods.Finally, “Making an Impact” tellsthe story of hundreds of Arab Americanindividuals and organizations.2007 / 8.5 x 11.25 / 200 pp / 250 illusISBN 978-0-9767977-1-5$35.00s paperPublished by the Arab American National Museumand distributed by Wayne State UniversityPress30Wayne State University Press regional Books