Sound Conservancy meets to bring attention to city’s musical landmarks

Detroit Sound Conservancy (DSC) originator Carleton Gholz is back in town for the latter part of spring (after wintering in Boston, where he teaches at Northeastern University) attempting to take this org to another, more active level of social engagement.

 

 

DSC ally Isaac Moore, who will be there on Thursday, has been developing a Detroit Wiki page on the history and fate of the United Sound Systems building in the northern end of the Cass Corridor. The big question: is this building preservable as an historic landmark? Or will it be, as so many others musical heritage sites have been, torn down to widen Interstate 94? 

 

Participants should check out the Wiki page ahead of the meeting in preparation for a brainstorming session on the future of United Sound Systems (made famous for sessions by John Lee Hooker, Parliament-Funkadelic and many others) and other similar musical heritage sites in the city. What can the Detroit Sound Conservancy — or any group for that matter — do to help preserve Detroit’s musical landmarks?

On May 9, Gholz will talk about the Detroit Sound Conservancy’s oral history project; and on May 16, longtime local music journalist Christopher Handyside will lead a discusion on the legacy of Detroit music criticism.