Browsing by Author "Cohassey, John"

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    Elvin Jones’ Detroit Years
    (Oakland University, 2008-01-01) Cohassey, John; Nixon, Jude V.
    Throughout his life Jones credited his early Detroit years as preparing him for New York City’s competitive jazz scene and for shaping his skills as one of jazz music’s most innovative drummers.
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    In Duchamp’s Shadow: Dadaist in the City of Machines
    (2012-01-01) Cohassey, John; Cole, Natalie B.
    I set out to find a link between the Scarab Club signature and his coming to Detroit in 1961. We may never know why Duchamp—who never spoke fondly of history, especially its art movements and “isms” and rejected all facets of aesthetic commercialism—accepted an honorary degree from an urban university so far from the powerful centers of the art world. But for an artist fascinated by the machine and mechanical drawings, Detroit may have been a fitting place for such an honor.
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    Offbeat on Campus
    (Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Cohassey, John
    From hippie urban and rural communes emerged a lifestyle imitated on college campuses, in dorm rooms and rented houses decorated with concert bills and art nouveau-influenced poster art, and filled with various musical sounds. Years before Main Street and movies began spreading the counterculture, large numbers of college students thrived on art and experiment.
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    Roaring Twenties, Troubled Times: Writers’ Impressions of Detroit
    (Oakland University, 2012-10-01) Cohassey, John; Cole, Natalie B.
    Before Detroit’s image in the national media became synonymous with blight and crime, many writers and novelists offered differing accounts of its 1920s prosperity and the troubled Depression era that followed.