This is where all of the eminem music would come, out of this room. This is where the romantics recorded. And others too over the years. This is a pretty iconic place. The detroit music scene does censor around motown. That is what everybody knows. Interestingly, motown is sort of the middle of the story. Stories,t of all the of all the other genres of music. It plays a big role in the sound of detroit. Its known for motown, but its actually known around the world. What was happening in detroit, this was starting around the 1900s, 1910, 1920s 1920s, and into the 1930s. To becomes starting the automotive epicenter. Before that, detroit was a major manufacturing city. There were famous for ovens, and even cigars, and things like that. But then when the car company, when ford turned into the assembly line, that is when people really started migrating up here. A lot of jazz musicians started to migrate up here from the south, kind of like the blues. And the motown people, a lot of them, started to migrate to detroit for jobs. You would have a number of musicians who also worked at, dodge, beenor played their music at night, then they became more famous and that became their career, and so forth. Playing] pepper adams was a really big name. Yousef was a really big name. Became the who later funk brothers, the sound machines, so to speak, for motown, came up as jazz musicians. Vandyke and many others, they had the southern roots. What happens with motown in is ait is, berry gordy songwriter, he boxed on a bill with joe lewis. Thought, thisany isnt so great, im getting my head beat in. He wrote songs, then he started writing songs that junk that Jackie Wilson recorded and had hits. He discovered he was getting pennies on the record. Smokey robinson, from the north end of detroit, they were tight together. He said, you are making a couple of pennies for records, why dont you start your own thing and release these records . Thats how it starts. He starts looking for groups. The Detroit Public School system back then had great music programs. Around forscouting kids were in the music programs and maybe had singing groups. Know, that habitations you know, the 10 tatians or the ptations and tem the four tops. Guys that were singing on the corner. Andtarted looking for that signed artists one by one. On fromown is getting and those from around the country. Everyone knows this is coming from detroit. Easy] ont come after motown, the sound becomes, what some people now refer to as the origins of punk music with the mc five. Downriver. Kers from deconstruct the music. [rock music] at that point, with the mc five and the psychedelic theges, what happens is, troy the epicenter of that kind becomes thedetroit epicenter of that kind of music. At that point in time everyone itnted to sign a detro group. Berry gordy signed everybody. Back then, Record Companies were flooding into town and they all wanted, just like anything else in music, they all want their britney spears, or whatever. They came here looking for the next mc five. Signed toands were major labels. All these other groups start to come to the surface, and then things start to change from that. Downare you ready to throw if you really want to party throwdown thate next music thing starts a happen in the late 1970s is hiphop and rap. And they are being inspired by the sugar hill gang, and kurtis people from new york who were some of the early rappers. They kind of start to build their own little scene. The concrete ground in the street right here in motown scene brings, that into contact, kid rock, who started as a hiphop guy, then of course, marshall mathers. [slim shady] then once eminem broke through it became, everybody wanted to sign a hiphop group. They wanted to sign the next eminem. But, all the time that is happening in detroit, techno music is being developed by these High School Kids down in belleville, michigan. They just liked mixing different sounds, and making connecting them, and making them extended tracks for danceable things. Then the techno thing starts to corrupt. Erupt. I would say after the eminem flurry of hiphop groups, and everybody wanted one, then, internationally, the techno sound explodes. [techno playing] internationally, people are coming to detroit to find the techno sounds. Locally, i dont know, it seems like some of my students are techno people, but not as many as you would think for it being the epicenter. I dont know it if it has caught on here like it did with motown. Motown is the each rate Music Development is the detroit Music Development. You see what comes with it and connects back to it. Even with the mc five. They would do some motown, in their own way. They did some john lee hooker. They did motor citys burning. Which was about the uprising here. They reported that and would perform recorded that and would perform that on a regular basis. A lot is really about what techno music is. Mixing different music together. You have to be innovative in detroit. That creates a different kind of artist who is always thinking outside of the box. When you think back to jazz through techno, all of those areicular genres of music happening in detroit because of people who think outside the box. Our cities tour staff recently traveled to detroit, michigan to learn about its rich history. To watch more video from detroit and other stops on our tour, visit cspan. Org cities tour. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Each week american artefacts takes viewers into Historic Sites around the country. We visit the rise up exhibit here at the museum to learn about the 1969 stonewall riots and how they served as a catalyst for the modern lgbt rights movement. We are here at the prologue of our newest exhibit. Innewall was in an event 1969, an uprising in a gay bar in new york city that propelled forward the l