a longtime observer of local folk life. But there s no battery neighborhood. And it s like everything in Detroit. Everyone is headed in the same direction but together and separately at the same time. When | surveyed the current scene, this quizzical dictum made sense. Scattered over several suburbs and a variety of settings (from funky bar to sterile civic center), the folk music community was alive and well, but at best obscured from view in a city most noted for its jazz, rock and R & B. And those who were trying to keep the music going were obviously getting tired one of the area s four coffeehouses has just closed for exactly that reason. Another was gone because it had been evicted from its host club. And the musicians sounded a bit worn from the effort, too. But in all of these troubles, there was still hope, and maybe even new growth.
ineteen sixty-six might have found a young Saskatchewan songstress named Joni Anderson sharing the mike with her boyfriend (later husband) Chuck Mitchell at the Chessmate on McNichols. Other young conquering folk heroes like Gordon Lightfoot or Tom Paxton would come on the national circuit that included the ¥ Raven Gallery and would share the ws _stage with local artists like Ron Coden or Jonathan Round. Then there was the Retort, that introduced a young Jose Feliciano to Detroit and also gave Buffy Sainte-Marie her first hearing here.
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In church basements across the city, in to the thrill of everyone in the crowd. gether a new wave musical last fall. Paxton Mer erowitz at little proving-ground coffeehouses oper- What became of them all? The big still writes protest songs, though his music J y ated on shoestrings, giving would-be rooms, the listening rooms, including,, is seldom if ever heard on the airwaves. minstrels their first chance to learn the finally, the Raven, all closed. The little Lightfoot has been considerably more the Halsted trade among these young pups were coffeehouses went through mutation and successful in that regard, though The Claudia Schmidt and Joe Vermilion. permutation and still exist with different Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald might Gallery Sometimes at the Absolute Zero, the people involved and in different settings. not qualify as protest music. Claudia Crystal Wind, the Amani or Saga Joe s Coden is part of a children s TV show Schmidt left town and has begun to earn a Post Office, you d hear a bigger name:sit and still does a solo act. Round put to- national. reputation for her talents. Joe continued on page 8
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- VOLUME I, NUMBER 8 x FEBRUARY 5-19, 1981
NEWS
Senior Citizens Oppose WCCC Cuts, by Lloyd Gite Welcome to the Pink Collar Ghetto, by Parn Weinstein The Coming of I-696, by Sandra Tomilenko
FEATURES
Detroit Folk Revival? by Jan Loveland Fresh Fortnightly, edited by Jan Loveland Dialogue, by David Finkel
Women in the Showroom, by Deborah Sundmacher pFlicks, by Michael Betzold ... Oe a ns ee p. 12-13
THE ARTS
The Clash, by Rob Hayes and Warren Westfall Little Milton, by Christine Hench and Peter Dale Gene Dunlap, by Herb Boyd Trapezoid, Bryan Bowers and Joel Mabus, by Jan Loveland eps Meyerowitz at the Halstead Gallery, by Barbara Weinberg ee ee SD: Black History Month, by Herb-Boyd NCAA Take-over Libel: by Pam Weinstein
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Senior Citizens | Oppose wccc Cuts
by Lloyd Gite
Wayne County Community College (WCCC) trustees have approved a_ cost-cutting plan designed to save the institution
$1.8 million. The cuts will force the college to end a number of courses previously offered at neighborhood centers, lay off temporary and part-time em-ployees and close the school for two weeks between the winter and spring terms idling 400 nonteaching employees.
One of the programs affected by the cuts is the Help-Ur-Selves (HUS) Project. HUS is a special outreach program designed by WCCC for senior citizens. Through its Community Services/Continuing Education (CS/ CE) Department, the . college takes classes to the seniors. The classes are offered at 103 centers in seniors apartment buildings, churches and at senior citizen centers around the city.
In the past two years more than 8,000 seniors have taken part in the classes designed for them. Under the recent budget cuts a number of the classes offered specifically for seniors will no longer be taught at their neighborhood centers. Those classes will continue to be offered, but seniors must enroll at WCCC branches and attend the classes on campus.
The discontinuation of the classes will save the college an estimated $129,000 in teachers salaries.
Many senior citizen students are protesting the dropping of the
classes. They ee presented the WCCC Board of Trusteés with petitions containing 2,000 signatures asking that the classes be restored to the neighborhood centers. -
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The head of the CS/CE department, JoAnn Terry, agrees with the seniors. services away from people who have the least power andthe leastinfluence in this society, she told Detroit Metro Times.
She, too, is upset that many of the Classes will no longer be taught. The older people are eager to learn, and the classes have been therapy for our brains. [| call it therapy because that s what it is. We need it. Older Americans helped build this country andsomething should be done for them.
According to Terry, if the state s economy doesn t improve, further cuts in the program could occur. She _ says program does not generate any money which could make it ripe for total elimination in the future.
the HUS.
For the most part, young. students are paying for the cost of their programs. The one unique thing about the seniors is that we waive their tuition.
Barb Schipps is a 67-year-old volunteer who teaches square dancing at the Crowell Center where some of the classes have been dropped. There s a great need for those classes, because there are so many thousands of older people who are having time on their hands now, she said. The elderly people in the program are learning all kinds of new skills and making a lot of social contacts. They're learning things they can use.
Elsa Zemene is 81 years old.
She and her 79-year-old hus-: band, Augustin, attend classes at the Crowell Recreation Center.
Dialogue is a regular feature of Detroit Metro Times and is intended to offer a diverse range of opinion on subjects of importance to Detroit-area readers.
by David Finkel
Barbara Weinberg, one of the senior citizen instructors, also opposes the program cutbacks. Weinberg, who teaches ceramics to the elderly, described the tangible benefits which she has observed. The programs that were being offered became a real vital part of the lives of thousands of senior citizens. More and more seniors were becoming involved in. going to those centers and taking those classes and using their brains and their creativity. A lot of seniors had gotten together and formed a ceramics club, and they put on a big arts and crafts fair at the college recently and raised $2,600. So they re learning skills where they can make money.
WCCC Board of Trustees
Chairman George Bell has defended the budget cuts, saying the senior citizen classes will not be dropped but only relocated. No basic programs for the senior citizens have been cut. Where they have been offered has been changed. That will reflect in a savings for the college in terms of how they pay their instructors.
DIALOGUE
women were killed in El Salvador. Killed is too clean and faceless a word, actually they were raped, shot and hurriedly buried, like stacks of wood, according to reports from these who found the bodies the next day, with their blood-stained undergarments around their ankles.
There can be no doubt that the jubilation over the return of the 52 American hostages from Iran was a genuine outpouring of emotion for millions of people. Even_ ary Jean Donavan. those of us inclinded to be deeply cynical about media events had to admit, whatever role the media played in dramatizing it, that here was a celebration and demonstration of national pride that was too big for anyone to have staged or invented it.
In fact, the profound concern shown by so many people for fellow Americans held in Iran brought home to me one of the deepest ironies of the crisis.
Last Dec. 2, just about the time the political logjam over the hostages was starting to break up, four American
The four women were Sister Ita Ford and Sister Maurice Clarke of the Maryknoll order, Sister Dorothy _Kazel of the Ursuline order, and lay Catholic mission-
These murders were a three-day sensation in the American press. The State Department sent a team to El Salvador to investigate the killings, which resulted in a reorganization of the military junta ruling that country, That U.S. -sponsored reorganization consolidated power in the hands of the Salvadorean extreme right which murdered the American women. The investigation was then declared completed, and the story died.
Before leaving office, the Carter Admin-
But all the programs will still be ea ue
Bell: contends the senior citi- zens educational program was not singled out for major. cuts. The trustee says the cuts were made proportionately throughout the institution.
To lessen the severity of the discontinuation of some of the classes being taught at the senior citizen centers, Bell says there isa possibility that the city will provide bus service to transport the elderly to branch campuses to attend the classes previously taught at the neighborhood centers.
Terry says transporting the elderly to the branch campuses is not a good idea. Physically they would have to leave where they live and go elsewhere for the classes. I think there is a fear of
istration resumed full-scale military aid to the Salvadorean government, one of the few regimesin the world whose atrocities against its own people are probably even worse than those of the late Shah of Iran.
Of the millions of Americans who have learned the names of many of the 52 freed hostages by heart, not one-tenth of one percent will remember the names of the four murdered in El Salvador.
I don t believe for a moment that the American people can be blamed for this, when their concern over the plight of fellow Americans held in Iran has been so vividly displayed. But the Evening News does not remind us each night of how many days have passed since the women were murdered and what is(n t) being done about it.
Blame it on political expediency the expediency that said it was good policy to resume arms shipments to the Salvadorean junta, no matter what crimes had to be covered up to do so. friend of mine in New York told me that Catholics he
crime. Seniors feel more comfortable not moving around on their own. At the senior centers we may set up class that meets just once a week. Many of the academic classes at the campuses meet two or three times a week for the same subject. Its a faster pace. We ve tailored classes to meet the seniors needs in theircenters.
Statistical data obtained from WCCC officials seems to substantiate claims by the seniors that many would be unable to enroll in the classes. The statistics indicate almost 1,000 fewer seniors will enroll in the classes because of the change in location of instruction.
Terry and other staff members in the CS/CE program are looking for alternative sources of funding to restore the classes taken away from the senior centers.
knows, middle aged and non-radical, were profoundly shocked that U.S. aid goes toa regime that commits such acts but I don t expect to see them interviewed on television about it.
I m not suggesting, of course, that the political circumstances surrounding the murder of four U.S. women working among Salvadorean peasants for simple social justice were the same as those surrounding the seizure of Americans carrying out diplomatic and other functions of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The circumstances were, indeed, different which guess is the whole point.
Exactly what the American people learned from the Iran hostage crisis is avery complex question which I think will take a long time to determine. EF] Salvador, on the other hand, shows that the American government has learned nothing.»
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-NEWS FEATURE Welcome to the Pink Collar Ghetto
by Pam Weinstein
ecent figures from the U.S. Department of Labor and projections from the U.S. Census Bureau, based on data from the 1980 Census, confirm for any of you skeptics out there what Jane Q.-AverageWorking-Woman_ probably knew all along: that more and more women in America now. work outside the home; that the vast majority of us are still concentrated in traditional femalejobs (over half of us are clericals); and that our wages are still crummy.
agencies have generated is both enlightening and depressing.
The decade of the 1970s saw an unprecedented number of.women enter the workforce roughly a million American women a year entered or re-entered the job" market: By 1979, just over half of American women were working, compared with 43% in 1970. By 1990, experts predict the number will be up to two-thirds of the female population over 16.
Married women with children under 6 was the group that went to work in the biggest way their rate of employment between 1950 and 1978 tripled to a whopping 42%. The proportion of the nation s paychecks collected by women also rose women now constitute over 40% of the nation s workforce.
Experts speculate that changing marital patterns people now choose to stay single longer and get divorced or separated more frequently account for some of the changes in labor force patterns for women. Longer life expectancies, smaller families and rising expectations all probably play some role in the process, too. Skyrocketing inflation, however, may be the single most important factor in increased women s employment: even with two paychecks, many American families are struggling just to stay even with the upward spiral of the cost of living.
Welconic i6 the Ghetto (Where Change fora Dollar Equals 59¢)
he vast majority of America s working women, however, are still concentrated in traditional female occupations. Indeed, job segregation is both the most striking feature of the American labor market and the most serious problem facing working women today.
Over half of all working women (55%) are still employed in clerical/service occupations, an employment pattern for women that has changed little since 1950. The high visibility and hype given to women s inroads into male jobs belies the actual facts: only 612% of managers and administrators are women; only 10% of doctors and 13% of lawyers are women; less than 2% of blue collar craftsworkers are women. In professional and technical fields, women constitute roughly the same 15% they did back in 1970. er
category, the gap persists. Professional women earn only 70% of what professional men take home, for example. Perhaps most painful of all; women clericals earn only 63% of male clericals salaries.
Unionization does help women who are union members make 30% more than their non-unionized sisters. But organized women still earn only 60% of what organized men do. It is instructive to note here that almost two-thirds of the people who are officially labeled poor are women; and over half of all the children living in poverty in this land of plenty live in homes headed by single mothers.
Comparable Worth
or some time now, it has been evident to working women that despite their egalitarian appeal, demands for equal pay for equal work are not going to get us anywhere. Job segregation means working women are. concentrated in women s jobs. For women clericals to demand equal pay forequal work gets them nothing: 8 out of 10 clericals are women.
The latest buzzword slogan is equal pay for comparable worth a formulation that attempts to address the problem created by job segregation. Indeed, it does seem odd that steam fitters make more than nurses, and that janitors make more
Only heaven and Howard Jarvis know how many millions of bureaucratic hours and taxpayer dollars were expended to collect the statistical data which document these conclusions. That would no doubt require another study. But a brief tour through the jungle of numbers these
And, women continueto Sit the same 59¢ for each dollar their male counterparts earn: the average median salary for man is $17,000 a year; for a woman, its $10,100 a year. That s a pattern that remains unchanged over the last 40 years. And no one expects any change in the future.
This disparity in earning power is pervasive: even within the same occupational than secretaries.
But recent court cases on the comparable worth notion have so far been unsuccessful. For one thing, no one seems to be able to figure out a way to calculate comparable worth with any degree of precision. For another, the consequences of such an economic shift could be alarmingly revolutionary: as one U.S. district court judge put it, I m not going to restructure the entire economy of the United States.
However, with the number of families in the U.S. headed by women now totaling 812 million, and that number continuing to climb steadily, that re-structuring of the entire economy of the country may well end up being the only solution.
The Future
iven the current economic doldrums, it is ironic to note that many omen s jobs have probably been more secure and recession-proof than men s jobs. Over two-thirds of the jobs in the U.S. are in the service-producing industries so thickly: populated with women. Indeed, some economists argue that women s recent employment patterns merely mirror a general and widespread shift in the American economy, from a
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manufacturing to a post-industrial, serviceoriented society: women are in a pinkcollar ghetto because that s where the jobs are. The growth rate in the last ten years for the U.S. goods-producing sector was less than 19; in the service-producing sector, the rate was over 3%. During the last two major recessions (1969-70 and 1973-75), women s employment levels remained fairly steady, protected by the growth in the service-producing sector.
What impact President-elect Ronald Reagan s economic policies will have on women s employment levels is presently unclear. Reagan s schemes to put America back to work focus largely on the manufacturing sector and, as such, are unlikely to be of much help to women. Indeed, Reagan s plans may not be of much help to anybody: structural changes in the country s economy in the last ten years mean that the old truths no longer hold. More than 70% of all the new jobs created between 1973 and 1980 were in the service-producing sector. Reversal of that trend will be uphill, to say the least. Some economists also predict that Reaganomics will be highly inflationary, which, if true, will be extra-bad for women. Reagan s plans to cut civilian government spending drastically will hurt women medical and health care services will be hit hard, and 81% of all health service workers are women. Reagan s plans to cut waste in government will also mean reductions in employment levels in federal, state and local governments where, once again, women are clustered.
by Sandra Tomilenko
A recent decision to complete the south Oakland County 1-696 U.S. Transportation Department project, originally proposed in 1956, has local politicians, environmentalists and proprietors scrambling in protest.
Construction of the last 7.9 miles of the 28-mile freeway is contingent on the outcome of a 30-day waiting period, the last opportunity to examine a federally prepared impact statement and to voice opposition.
Although the Reagan administration has the opportunity to reverse the project s approval, Michigan Transportation Department officials say they don t think. that will happen. A new administration does not generally overturn projects, said Robert Adam of the state Transport Pfauning Bureau.
The plan that has been tentatively approved includes provisions to lessen the impact on its eight bordering communities and to reaffirm a federal commitment of $600 million for a Detroit subway by pledging to integrate I696 with a proposed light-rail line.
Because Lathrup Village, a community that lies on both sides of the bulldozer s path, may be severed in two, Mayor Vincent Zatell is opposed to the link. The south side of our community is an older residential area. The highway would highlight that, and the residents would feel apart from the rest of the community, he told Detroit Metro Times.
Zatell said the proposed link should border Lathrup Village instead. It won't, he said, because there is a Southfield park there. The junction has been mapped from Northwestern Highway east along the Ten Mile and Eleven Mile Road corridors to 1-75.
A Community Organization to Preserve Our Neighborhoods (COUPON) spokesperson, Peter Swallow, said 1-696 would cause a substantial tax loss after the 350 parcels of land needed to complete the project are obtained by the Michigan Department of Transportation. Four hundred parcels have already been procured.
Pleasant Ridge will lose more than 20 percent of its tax base, Lathrup Village will lose 15 (percent) and Royal Oak Township (will lose) more than 20 percent, Swallow said.
COUPON, which is comprised of residents from the eight bordering communities, has negotiated with the transportation departments on the federal and state levels for project compromises. The revisions won include: landscaped decks for pedestrian crossing and housing units, and additional parking lots for the Detroit Zoo, another threatened area.
Sound barriers have been promised, too, but their design has not been determined. The options are concrete walls similar to 1-275 or landscaped-earth mounds. According to Adam, the transportation department hired a consultant to analyze the visual effect 1-696 may have for the neighborhoods.
But the cost of maintaining landscaped mounds will be the responsibility of the communities, he said. In addition, the larger communities _ including Southfield, Oak: Park and Royal Oak will have to pay for some of the initial construction costsof the link.
COUPON s Swallow criticizes the project because itis supported by a U.S. environmental impact statement based on data gathered more than seven years -ago. Adam agreed that the final report was submitted in 1974, but claimed the population and traffic figures have been updated. When
questioned about air pollution tolerance levels, he replied scientific fact doesn t change as years go by.
A similar response came from Coleman Y oung s office concerning possible effects of.increased air and sound pollution on animals in the Detroit Zoo. Carol Cambell, a mayoral aid, said no statement has been released recently and no studies are underway related to the zoo. The director of the zoo, Dr. Gunter Voss, was not available for comment.
_Zatell has called for public hearings-in Lathrup Village concerning the project. He said he needs to monitor the mood of his constituents. We must decide if we want to continue to resist or give in, he said.
Zatell believes there is a viable legal defense to support opposition of the proposed route. He has interpreted the Michigan State Constitution as not allowing the state to take control of a road without permission of the host city. And Eleven Mile Road is a city road, he said.
Critics of the plan point to several alternatives. These include widening the existing roads, providing mass _ transportation and installing computerized traf-- fic signals to. control the flow: of traffic.
A member of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council, Jim Bush, said too much attention is given to automobile travel and not enough to other forms of transportation.
Cars get an average of 19 passenger miles per gallon, and mass transit buses get an average of 72, he said. That means autos consume roughly four times that of public _ transportation miles.
Zatell adds that all that will be .saved by the $30 million project is eight minutes of travel time. And all the link will do is satisfy the egos of the planners, he said.
KING S LEGACY HONORED WASHINGTON
Nearly missed amongst the pre-inauguration hoopla and the unfolding drama of the hostage negotiations, over 25,000 people gathered Jan. 15 on the cold, snow-covered slopes of the Washington Monument grounds to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Organized by singer Stevie Wonder, the rally, and numerous other rallies in cities across the country, had a specific point to put pressure on Congress to declare King s birthday a national holiday.
Representative John Conyers has introduced legislation every Congress since 1968 to declare Jan. 15, - King s birthday, a national holiday. This year, Conyers was joined by Senator Charles Mathias, Republican of Maryland, who introduced an identical bill in the Senate. The bill nearly passed last year, and supporters are optimistic about its chances this year, despite the new conservative make-up of the Congress. It was widely thought that the Reagan administration needs to make some sort of symbolic gesture to gain legitimacy among minorities, and this may present them with a ready opportunity.
The crowd at the Washington Monument wasn t going to wait for an act of Congress to celebrate a holiday, though. After hearing speakers including King s son, Martin Luther King III, Ben Chavis, Conyers and Dick Gregory, the crowd joined Stevie Wonder in a spirited version of We Shall Overcome and then a raucous, festive Happy Birthday, Wonder s song calling for a King holiday. For those dancing and singing in the snow, Jan. 15 is, and will always be, a day to commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michael Mariotte
JAPANESE K-CAR?
If the K-car is supposed to show the world that an American car company can beat out foreign competition while bailing out Chrysler at the same time, it s employing international means to do it.
The standard 2.2 liter K-car engine is made in the U.S. while the optional 2.6 liter engine is made by Mitsubishi in Japan. Harry Lane and Kirk Stump from Northwestern Dodge in Ferndale told Detroit Metro Times that about 80% of the K-cars they sell have the 2.2 liter engine. Lane pointed out that in this era of-the world car (as well as world car company), Certain things are tradeoffs. Chrysler owns 15% of Mitsubishi and all of their automatic transmissions are made by the Chrysler Corporation,
Bruce Raymond of Chrysler s engine design department said that Chrysler was reviewing some proposals that would potentially eliminate some of the foreign parts.
Bob Barbee at Solidary House said that UAW president Douglas Fraser wants a content law like they - have in other countries. A content law specifies that a certain percentage of a cars parts be made in ie country in which it is sold.
The American auto companies are making it harder for real Americans to find their American cars.
Bob Gordon -
WELCOME RICHARD GUINDON
Richard Guindon, the unconventional (actually quite bizarre) syndicated cartoonist, will shortly be leaving the Minneapolis Tribune and heading for Detroit. In addition to continuing his syndicated cartoon, beginning April he will be doing locally oriented work exclusively for the Detroit Free Press. According to Bill Backer, assistant executive editor at the Free Press, Guindon will unleash his decidedly odd and often brilliant humor on local politicians, personalities and issues concerning the Detroit metropolitan area. Detroit Metro Times welcomes Guindon to Detroit. Florence Walton
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Vermilion stayed put and is now an impor-_ tant force locally.
And as for Chuck Mitchell s young wife, the rest is history.
it Cohen is trying to put her feelings about the Raven into words. She was part of the institution for sixteen years, starting as a waitress and ending as visionary Herb Cohen s widow. And the first thing she tells me is that_ Herb Cohen was a man 20 years ahead of his time.
The original Raven on James Couzens was beautiful. When showed the pictures to the Detroit Metro Times art staff, they wanted to know where the new bar was the Raven s design was far ahead of its day in 1960. So was its concept serving coffee and pastries, offering good things to look at and listen to all the senses fulfilled in a single environment.
1 still believe ,in the concept, says Cohen, adding softly, When something is an institution its a very trying emotional experience to watch it cease to exist. The two owners who bought the Raven from her couldn t make the big bucks they had envisioned, and in 1979 the Raven closed for everymore.
And the music? Folk music carried a banner, she recalls. But so much of the world around us is tragedy that we don t want to go out and have it run past us again.
osh White, Jr. is a veritable Detroit institution himself, though his folk music career usually carries him out
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of town because There s a void in Detroit. As he travels, he says, he meets lots of young people who are looking for a way into the business. In Chicago, for example, there are rooms for young singers to work and shape their act. But in Detroit, There aren't really places for young people to get the exposure There s not a lot of respect for the performer in bars.
etroit is a good bar town, points out Rich Delgrosso who, teamed up with his wife Maureen, manages to perform a fair amount around the area. The folk scene is growing, Delgrosso says. But its still primarily built around the coffeehouse atmosphere.
The Delgrossos album, released last November, is called The Good Times and was recorded at the Raven in its final days. It is entertaining, funny and worth at least a listen, but only WPON in Pontiac and Whiskey Before Breakfast, the folk show on WDET, play it. We're excited about the airplay, says Maureen Delgrosso. In the three months the album has been available they have sold a few hundred copies, many of them at gigs.
hiskey Before Breakfast, according to many, is the local folk scene s most palpable sign of hope. Veteran WDET producer Judy Donlin, who puts the show together with Joe Vermilion, is also optimistic.
Our phone calls are so supportive. A lot of people are not aware of the music, but they ll call and say I ve never heard this before but I love it.
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The show features live performances along with records and interviews. During the last pledge period, as a measure of its popularity, the show, then only three weeks old, raised $3,500 in three hours for public radio, the highest pledge per individual show of that entire pledge campaign.
Donlin says that there s no average listener. Calls come in from a wide geographical area, all ages, and so forth. From this she concludes that The music has a mass appeal, the feelings are universal.
oe Vermilion talks about musical tradition in global terms. We don t listen to our old people as much aswe should. We're losing folk traditions because we're not willing to support the folk arts.
There is not, he says, enough support for local music traditions. In order to survive here you have to compromise a bit. I ve seen a lot of people bite the dust because they wanted to do the music they wanted to do. After awhile you re still sticking to your guns, but people don t want to hire you as much. Few purists can make a living at this.
The whole definition of folk has changed since the advent of the electronic age. My hopes are that with the increase of the electronic media there will be a proportionate number of people who will support folk.
efore the Hinge Coffeehouse went into its current eclipse, says Tim Joy, a lot of the musicians commented from the stage that Reagan s
victory would revive folk music. The Hinge is closed because none of the other volunteers besides Joy could devote the necessary time to its care.
Still, An incredible number of musicians have called me asking to play. The folk scene has a future if people know its there.
= omorrow night will be another test of folk music resiliency in the metropolitan area. The Southfield Department of Parks and Recreation will kick off an eight-week, Friday night series of folk concerts featuring mostly local talent with a few notable imports like onetime Detroiter Claudia Schmidt.
Ken Knoppow, an old sixties folky who helped coordinate the series with the department, thinks that there are a lot of people who used to go to the Raven who will come out for this. In Detroit, he says, this music hasn t had the exposure in the mass media, and that has resulted in a limited audience. In Chicago and New York, where there s a more attentive media, the folk community is more vibrant.
3 n Detroit folk circles, all roads lead
to Rowena. Generally acknowledged to be the grandmother or the psychic folkie guru for just about every notable Motown folkie. When | make my pilgrimage to her Lake Orion home, | discover why.
She has been around the city: playing and singing folk music since the early fifties, with memories of the first folk place, the Cup of Socrates, where WQRS used to
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CRIPPLE CREEK COFFEEHOUSE: at Common Ground, Adams at Lincoln, Birmingham, 645-1173. Brings local and outstate soloists and bands to Sunday evening sessions, in comfy, intimate atmosphere. Sometimes sponsors workshops for. audience in instrumental technique. Now in its eighth year.
BARS: Since the folk scene is ever shifting, its hard to generalize about bars where you can find folk reliably. Listed below are two prime folk bars, Griff's in Pontiac and Union Street in Grosse Pointe. We always endeavor to bring you all the latest bar listings, but generally you can look to several other places for folk fare. Alden s Alley in Royal Oak, Nemo s Fairlane in Dearborn, Four Green Fields in Birmingham all do have folk offerings. Then there are the nice surprises, like Ron Coden at J. Ross Browne sin Bloomfield Hills or a duo called Ron and Rich at the Sir Charles Pub which is usually reserved for the jazz sounds of Andrea Cheolas. You never know where theDetroit folk scene will pop up next!
around town in the last year, also because they will sponsor a winter folk festival on March 14. Stay tuned for lineup.
MUSIC STRINGS AND THINGS: 1810 S. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-5536. Local mecca for buying instruments and learning to play them. 17 instructors teach 300 students every week on a variety of instruments and techniques. Also good info place for local folk gig information.
PAINT CREEK FOLKLORE SOCIETY: Rochester group of folkies who, among other things, may be sponsoring the area s first folk festival this spring. Interested people come to their monthly meetings from all over the Metro area, and the group publishes-a monthly newsletter. Contact Tom Radcliffe for more information, 524-2363.
originate live broadcasts. She remembers sitting on the stairs at Detroit Arts and Crafts (lately called more glamorously, the Center for Creative Studies) playing her autoharp. And she remembers each of her musical children: White, Coden and Schmidt.
She also remembers the persecution of her contemporaries Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie during the McCarthy era. She was living in Cleveland at the time, and when Seeger came through town no one wanted to appear with him. Of course, she invited him to her radio show, but that was the start of a deep division in folk music
community, people have been saying that say there s nothing to sing about, she
between political and apolitical factions. All during my travels around the folk the days of political folk, of protest songs are over. What gets me is the kids who comments.
It always shifts: What's wonderful about folk music is that its reason always changes. Will the eighties bring back folk music? A smile comes to her lips. It will be another cycle with some extremely valuable information for the next generation.
DETROIT FOLKLORE SOCIETY: A group dedicated to the study, promotion and presentation of folk music, this group sponsors concerts, workshops and publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, The Half Lyre. For subscription information write Carolyn Montgomery, 23428 Plumbrooke, Southfield, 48075.
FOLKTOWN: at Southfield Parks and Recreation Auditorium, Evergreen at Civic Center Drive, Southfield, 855-9848. Brand new folk music concert-coffeehouse series that will perhaps continue after its first eight-week run if successful.
GRIFF S: 49 N. Saginaw, Pontiac. Deserves mention here as the newest all-folk bar to open
ROCHESTER FOLK WORKSHOP: 420 East St., Rochester, 652-0874. Smaller school of folk music that also houses folklore society meetings (see aboye). Vince Sadovsky is reputed to be one of the finest instrumentalists in the area.
UNION STREET I: 15016 Mack Ave, Grosse Pointe Park, 331-0018. Union Street deserves a special merit award because they are one of the few places where young local talent can still get a chance. They hire their rest of the week talent from their Monday talent night. And these.cracks at fame'and fortune are too few and far between these days. Bravo!
WHISKEY BEFORE BREAKFAST: WDET, 101.9 FM, Saturdays, 11 am-1 pm. If you want to hear what s happening on the local folk front, hosts Judy Donlin and Joe Vermilion will keep you informed.
Photo: Courtesy Kit Cohen
Steinem Sells Cars Women inthe Showroom: ANew Pitch |
by Deborah Sundmacher
Two legs in stockings and high heels protrude from underneath a car. The woman is inspecting the engine, assessing the craftsmanship, deciding if the car meets her high standards for an automobile. Standing next to the car are two men, one her companion, the other a car salesman, and they re both equally confused. After a long silence, the salesman says, I can remember when we could sell them on just color and upholstery. __
Sorry men, not anymore. Today s female car buyer is not only more aware of what she is buying, chances are she s got the credit history and the salary to buy it. And while the above scenario was only a cartoon depicted in Better Homes and Gardens, its an accurate picture of just how much women have changed their attitudes towards new car purchases. Salesmen, however, have not changed in equal proportion.
A recent survey conducted by Audits and Surveys, Inc. and the National Automobile Dealers Association (Automotive Age, May, 1979) found some surprising statistics, not only on what women want from their cars, but-on how dealers and salesmen perceive women buyers.
Perhaps the most startling revelation of the survey was that, while dealers gave only 27% of female customers credit for being concerned about service and repairs, they gave them even less credit for considering aspects such as durability, dependability and performance. In reality, as the survey showed, 84% of the women rated reliability and dependability of prime importance when considering a new car
purchase. When dealers were asked to approximate the average salary of the average woman buyer, a meager 9% of the dealers placed the woman in the over $20,000 category. The fact is, 35% of those women surveyed fell into the over $20,000 category.
The number of women who have purchased new cars has doubled in the last decade. Women now account for 45% of the new car market. Many factors have contributed to this increase, including better professional positions for women and therefore better salaries; an increase in two-income families; and postponement of marriage for young women, giving them greater independence in their major item purchases.
This change, however, isn t without its growing pains. Dealers, somewhat confused by this new market, have stuck to
their old ways of selling, and in the process have alienated potential female customers. In light of current economic conditions, dealers are realizing they can no longer afford to miss a potential market segment and have already taken action to exploit this market.
The most active corporation in the area of women is Chrysler, which has the only Woman s Passenger Car Committee in the automotive industry. Headed by Carrie Gray, the Woman s Passenger Car Committee is responsible for helping to develop programs aimed at the female buyer, as _well as review new products and make recommendations.
One of the most recent projects under their tutelage is an in-dealership video tape about Women and Car Buying. The opening segment is directed toward the dealer and what he can do to capture the female market; and the following segment
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is directed specifically to the ieee buyer. The second segment, which can be seen in most Chrysler/Plymouth and Dodge dealerships, features a guest panel of two women editors Kate Rand Lloyd from Working Woman and Julie Candler from Woman s Day, plus Carrie Gray and Janet Spangler, both of Chrysler s Woman s Passenger Car Committee. But the most interesting segment of the film is a guest appearance by Gloria Steinem.
Steinem, in probably her most moderate feminist role to date, cautions dealers to Tailor (car selling) to individuals and not to the stereotype of what woman might like. Steinem goes on to say that the showroom. has always been a very male place, and likened a. woman s presence there to how a man would feel in a maternity shop. And she warns dealers and salesmen to avoid pressuring the female buyer, suggesting they allow her to orient herself to this new atmosphere before coming on with their selling pitch.
Following Steinem, there are tips on maintenance and upkeep.by a seven-year > veteran woman mechanic; and a short presentation by the Assistant Treasurer. of Chrysler Credit, Marilyn Cooper, on getting car financing.
All of these topics should be of concern to women who are contemplating buying a car. However, vital information needed to make an-intelligent decision should be gathered before entering the selling environment. Consumer guides and even industry. sales literature probably offer the real answers to your questions.
In the final analysis, the best approach for any woman who wants to be taken seriously is to know what.she wants before she enters the showroom.
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JAZZ
ADRENALIN: Feb. 12-14, Harpo's, 823-6400.
ALEXANDER ZONJIC QUARTET: Sundays, Crash Lansing, Warren, 751-4444.
ALLEN BARNES BAND: Feb. 13-14, Cafe Detroit, 831-8820.
ANDREA CHEOLAS: Th-Sa, Sir Charles Pub, RO, 541-9593.
BARBARA BAILEY HUTCHISON: Feb. 5, 12, Union Street I, GP, 331-0018.
BILLY KALLAO QUINTET: Tu-Sa, Excalibur, Southfield, 358-3355.
BILLY TAYLOR: Feb. 20, 8 pm, Ford Auditorium, 962-5524.
BUGS BEDDOW JAZZ QUARTET: Feb. 6-7, Union St. I, GP, 331-0018.
CHARLES BOLES: Sundays, Union Street II, 831-3965.
BLACK ONYX: Feb. 6, Eagle Theatre, Pontiac, 335-5470.
BOGART: Feb. 18-22, Studio Lounge, Westland, 729-2540.
BOOGIE ALL NIGHT WITH THE DETROIT SWEETHEARTS: Natasha, Shakti & the Soda Jerks, City Girls, the Objects, Mimi Harris, Jill Phillips and Karen Bouchard, Feb. 14, pm-4 am, Park Ave. Club.
CHEAP TRICK: Feb. 13, Cobo Hall, 9621800.
D. C. HAWK: Feb. 5, September's, Warren, 756-6140.
MICHAEL JEUP: Sundays duting brunch, Union Street I, 831-3965. NIGHTCAP WITH MOZART: Birminsham Unitarian Church, 651 Woodward, Bloomfield Hills, 851-8934. Friday nights, 11 pm, complementary wine and cheese with admission. Feb. 6, The President's Trio of Oakland University. Feb. 20, Linda Snedden-Smith, violin, Muriel Kilby, piano. Feb. 8, 3 pm, Francesco DiBlasi, conductor.
PRAELUDIUM SERIES: Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward, 833-3700. Feb. 20, pm, Barry Tuckwell, french horn.
FAMILY GONG SHOW: Wednesdays, 7-10 pm, Aknartoon s, 867-3102.
JERRY O CONNER: Feb. 13, Woodbridge Tavern, 259-0578.
LEROY SIBBLES & THE ITAL GROOVE BAND: Reggae, rumored to be at the Club 1800 sometime in Feb. Call for schedule, 839-5993.
NON-STOP BAND: Orginal music, Feb. 13-14, Union Street GP, 3310018.
SHANDOR & HIS GYPSIES: Feb. 5, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355. STEEL PULSE THE ALIENS: Reggae, Feb. 13, pm, WSU General Lectures Hall, 934-7165.
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ACTOR'S RENAISSANCE THEATRE: Ren Cen btw. Towers 200 300, 5682525. Feb. 12-21, Th-Su, 8 pm, Total Eclipse. ATTIC THEATRE: 525 E. Lafayette, 963-7789. Thru Feb. 28, th, Su, pm; Sa, & pm, Time Steps. DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347. Thru March 1, American Buffalo. Th-Sa, 8:30 pm, Su, 7:30 pm. FISHER THEATRE: Fisher Bldg, 8721000. Thru Feb. 28, Annie.
FOURTH STREET PLAYHOUSE: 301 W. Fourth St, Royal Oak 543-3666. Feb. 6-8, 13-15 & 20-21, Public Ear/ Private Eye. Also midnight shows every FSa, Show & Tell. MEADOW BROOK THEATRE: Oakland Univ., Rochester, 377-3300. Thru Feb. 26, Tu-Su, Arsenic and Old Lace. ROSEDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS: Upstage Playhouse, 21728 Grand 838-3235. Feb. 6, 13-14, pm, The Good Doctor. Feb. 7 only, The Good Doctor will be performed in a dinnertheatre setting. Dinner starts at 6:30 pm. THE THEATRE COMPANY: U of D, Florence & Livemois. 927-1130. Feb. 13-15, 20-22, 8 pm, The Affect of VARNER HALL STUDIO THEATRE: Oakland Univ., 377-3015. Feb. 12-14, 19-21, 26-28, pm; Feb. 1522, 6:30 pm; March 1, 2:30 pm, The Mandrake. WSU THEATRES: Hilbeny Theatre, Cass at Hancock, 577-2972. Feb. 6, Love's Labor's. Feb. 7, Caesar Cleo, pm; Boy Meets Girl, 8:30 pm, Feb. 13, 14 18, 8:30 pm, Love for Love. Bonstelle Theatre: 3424 Woodward, 577-2960. Feb. 1, Mack Mabel,pm. Studio Theatre: Downstairs at the Hilberry, Wine in the Wildemess, Feb. 4-7; Feb. 5, matinee at 4.30 pm. WILL-O-WAY REPERTORY THEATRE: 775 W. Long Lake, Bloomfield Hills, 644-4418. FSa, 8:30 pm, thru March 28. Zorba. Call in advance.
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fost art, see Altered States. The movie is salvaged only by stand-out performance from Blair Brown as the desperately-in-love-with-afool Emily Jessup.
the lastin the Cass City Cinema Festival, is one of her better later films. (Cass City Cinema, Feb. 15.)
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be sampled at your own tisk. Warning: Your psychic health may be affected. If drowsiness, eyestrain, blood pressure, schizophrenia or other signs of movie addiction persist, dial M. ALTERED STATES. (AWWWWWWWWwww) This movie broke my weirdness-measuring instruments and left me feeling like somebodyd put some nasty stuff in my brownies. Too bad it so silly that you roar in laughter at what are supposed to be the heaviest scenes. Ken Russell shoots his specialeffects wad in this film about crazy scientist named Eddie Jessup, who mixes Mexican magic mushrooms with Harvard isolation tanks to visit earlier cosmic realities, and brings chunks of the collective unconscious back home with him. When Jessup (literally) goes ape, the movie becomes hilarious gorilla sag in spite of its pretentions; otherwise, it just an excuse for Russell to hold garage sale of cheap Wester imitation Eastern mystical consciousness. If you thought tripping out was
ANGI VERA. (««Z) In 1948 Hungary, the Party is trying to remake peasants into loyal, obedient Communists, and one of the bosses proteges in political re-education camp is one Vera Angi, an outspoken, guileless young woman who believes in the cause and her fellow workers. How the Party turns Vera into its very willing tool by getting her to place the collective good above her personal feelings is the focus of this intriguing, if slow-paced, film that strikes Western observer as just bit subversive, In an unobstructive, non-didactic way, the film raises important questions about the process of mutual criticism. (Ontario Film Theatre, Feb. 10.)
ANNA KARENINA. Garbo, in cahoots with Maureen O'Sullivan, Fredric March and Basil Rathbone, gives Tolstoy unexpected employment as an unlikely writer of Hollywood melodramatic mush. Not to be confused with the novel of the same name, on which it is supposedly based. (Cass City Cinema, Feb. 8.) -BLACK ORPHEUS. («*WW) The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has never jumped and jangied like this. Black Orpheus is that rare film which combines authentic Latin American music and culture with striking characterizations. The pageantry of the Rio de Janeiro Mardi Gras infuses this movie with warmth and vitality that just might melt the snow outside. (Cass City Cinema, Feb. & 7.) CAMILLE. By 1937, the Garbo legend was decade old, but her fans still loved her. Camille,
CHARLIE CHAN AND THE CURSE OF THE DRAGON QUEEN. Peter Ustinov and Angie Dickinson help revive Chan, probably best left alone to make appearances on Channel 62 at 3 am. (Opens Feb. 13.)
THE COMPETITION. Richard Dreyfuss, Lee Remick and Amy Irving star in this film about two concert pianists who are in love and each striving to win success. For change, Hollywood details courtship between peers. (Opens Feb. 13.)
THE DAY AFTER TRINITY. The mushroom cloud has hung over our heads now for 35 years, promising to turn all our efforts into meaningless holocaust with one push of the big button. The Bomb has warped our entire culture, invaded our psyches and destroyed two Japanese cities a grim forewarning of the fate that is eventually in store for us all if governments don't disarm. The Day After Trinity is 1980 documentary about the creation of theAbomb by scientists working for the U.S. government. It is paired with movie (Eight Minutes After Midnight) about anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott: (Detroit Film Theatre, Feb. 6.)
FORT APACHE, THE BRONX. Residents of the South Bronx picketed and protested long and hard because they thought this film about cops in the ghetto was racist. Stars Paul Newman and TV's Ed Asner. (Opens Feb. 6.)
GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS. French sex farce with Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere and Carol Laure. (Detroit Fim Theatre, Feb. 14.)
GORILLA AT LARGE. 3-Dementia continues at the Art Institute with this murder mystery ina zoo featuring Anne Bancroft. If you don t keep your glasses on, you might have your eyes poked out before the feature starts, because there's also 3-D three Stooges short. (Detroit Film Theatre, Feb. 15.)
HOUSE OF WAX. Its ad promised, Its thrills come off the screen right at you! It was directed by gentleman who had only one eye, and therefore could not see true depth (Andre de Toth). It was the biggest 3-D hit of all time, the first Warner Brothers film to enter the 3-D boom market in 1953. It actuallyis quickie remake of 1933's Mystery of the Wax Museum. stars Vincent Price. And it features one of the first screen appearances of Charles Bronson. But no one ever claimed itwas Sood movie. (Detroit Film Theatre, Feb. 8.)
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN. Lily Tomlin is modern Alice in an update of the classic horror comedy, The Incredible Shrinking Man. It been banner year for mutations, what with The Elephant Man, Altered States and Popeye s bulging forearms. INSIDE MOVES. Apart from Coming Home, there haven't been many roles in film for handicapped people. This film is about bar full of disableds, and the able-bodied hero who rescues them from their plight Patronizing, perhaps? (Opens Feb. 13.)
KAGEMUSHA. (**x) Kurosawa fuses Shakespearean tragedy with magnificent battle scenes in this grandiose epic about 16thcentury warlords fighting for control of Japan at the end of its feudal days. Tatsuya Nakadai Gives the best male performance ofthe yearina
dual role as the warlord Shingen and petty thief who becomes the fierce leader's double after Shingen s death. In the middle of sweeping panoramas of war, Kurosawa offers a striking contemplation about play-acting and the helplessness of even the powerful stuck in the cracks of history. Kagemusha is mesmerizing, slow paced, awesome to behold, and great antidote to the mediocre movie blahs.
LETTER TO AN: UNKNOWN WOMAN. 1948 Max Ophuls romantic classic with Joan Fontaine, paired with Cecil B. DeMille s The Plainsmen (1937), starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. Western and weeper. (Detroit Film Society, Feb. 13-14.)
MACBETH. This is Orson Welles 1947 version as he originally intended it to be shown, restored to its full two-hour lensth and accompanied by an experimental soundtrack which distributors thought was too esoteric for mass audiences. A must-see movie for fans ofWelles, Shakespeare and the cinema. (Detroit Film Theatre, Feb. 7.)
MELVIN AND HOWARD. Jason Robards has another Oscar nomination in his hip pocket for this film about the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the Utah gas station attendant who claimed to be his main heir (Opens Feb. 13.)
THE MIRROR CRACK D. (x) Predictable but satisfying entertainment, Mirror is good, light movie meal, featuring the stars of the 50s (Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis) in an Agatha Christie romp about murder on film set in a British village. Angela Lansbury is Christie super-sleuth Miss Marple, but Geraldine Chaplin outshines everyone with
portrayal that at times tenccends the rather strict boundaries of this kind of film. Novak is the best of the old-timers. The mystery itself, unfortunately, is not very exciting one, even for Christie. ORPHEUS. Jean Cocteau's poetic reincarnation of the ancient legend, updated to 1950 New Wave France. (Afiernoon Film Theatre, Feb. 4-8.)
THE OUTSIDER. Shot in Grosse Pointe and Belfast, among other places, thisis first-run Irish-American fictional film about Vietnam veteran from Detroit who goes to his grandfather's homeland to fight for the IRA. Another coup for the DFI. (Detroit Film Theatre, Feb. 13.)
POPEYE. (x*«*W) wonderfully wacky comeback movie for Robert Altman, who proves he can make great comedy when he wants to with this de-animated cartoon that is quite unlike any other movie ever made, from the Oscarworthy cantilevered set to the bodies flying through the air like they do on Saturday moming cartoons. Popeye looks and sounds like it was made by Walt Disney on speed, and thats due to Altman's talent for making many amazing things happen simultaneously on screen. This isn't the punch-drunk cartoon Popeye either, but the original conception of Elzie Segar s comic strip an orphan in search of his father; fiercely independent, sarcastic and loveable sailor who fights only when he endlessly provoked; rebel against the corporate henchmen who run the town of Sweethaven in short, superhero most of us can heartily endorse in an age of television superheroes with cosmic pretensions. Popeye is simple morality play, cleverly done, endlessly ene
and endearingly simple like all great art. QUINTET. Even Pauline Kael defected from the ranks of Robert Altman supporters after seeing this 1979 Altman extravagance about five people who play deadly game in the icy after_-math of nuclear war. The intemational cast includes Paul Newman, Bibi Anderson, Vittorio Gassman and Fernando Ray. frigid ctitical reception to Quintet insured its quick commer cial death; it played in Detroit for five days. Can any Altman flick really be that bad? Here's chance to find out. (Cass City Cinema, Feb. 13 14)
TESS. Roman Polanski tries to redeem himself, with nice three-hour romantic melodrama based on the Thomas Hardy novel, Tess of the DUbervilles. (Opens Feb. 13.)
TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS. (WWW2Z) self indulgent, incoherent, surrealistic final chapter to the career of painter/poet/director Jean Cocteau, who apparently saw himself as the embodiment of art when he made this wildly idiosyncratic fantasy in the early 50s. Frequent references to earlier Cocteau films, to surrealist symbols and to univeral truths alternate with dull and pompous narrations by ur himself. (Afternoon Film Theatre, Feb. 11-15.)
TRIBUTE. (*«x) Everybody loves clown, except abandoned sons. Everybody loves dying clown, especially screenwriters. And everybody loves movies about dying entertainment figures these days. But despite these three strikes against it, Tribute is a damned effective melodrama, principally because of good supporting efforts by Lee Remick, Robbie, Benson and Colleen Dewhurst, which make Jack Lemmons transition from stage (where Tribute was a Broadway smash) to screen
memorable. For anyone who's had parent die before being able to reach a mature, adult understanding and reconciliation, Tributeis like the fulfillment ofa wish: the saving ofa relationship we all wanted to be better. tearjerkerthat Wrens eoce! os ope ot own en cesses.
WINDWALKER. (axaw) Native Americans have been brutalized by Hollywood films since the dawn of movies, depicted as brutal, dumb, dishonest savages. Windwalker is first step at setting the story straight. It s still filled with Hollywood action, adventure and cliche, but this story of Cherokee family s flight from band of marauding enemy Crows is easily the most beautifully photographed film of the year. Except for Bntisher Trevor Howard in the title tole, all the actors are
Americans, and the dialogue is in Cherokee and Crow with English subtitles. Women and children and old men are the brave warriors of this film, and the landGin this case, the upper reaches of wintry Utah mountains) is the central chatacter. Windwalker is surely the first authentic American movie.
ISHANGI DANCERS: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 833-7900. Feb. 45, 10 am & 12:30 pm; Feb. 8, 11 am & 2 pm, the dancers will perform at the Youtheatre as part of Black History Month.
IZULU & INTERNATIONAL AFRIKAN AMERICAN BALLET: Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward, 8334044. Feb. 18, 6 pm, Friends Aud. A Black History Month event.
LAR LUBOVITCH DANCE COMPANY: Music Hall, 350 Madison, 963-6943. Feb. 18-21.
LITERARY
BOOK PARTY: Alumni House, Wayne State University, Feb. 13, 7:30-10 pm. Join Weekend College & Friends of Ron Aronson in celebrating the publication of Jean-Paul Sartre Philosophy in the World by Ronald Aronson.
LINES: POETRY AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Feb. 5, 3 pm, informal talk in the Holley Room; 7:30 pm, reading in Lecture Hall, poet/playwright Jessica Hagedorn.
MACOMB FANTASY FACTORY: Meets altemate Mondays. Call Dell Courey, 286-2256 for more info.
POETRY RESOURCE CENTER OF MICHIGAN: PO Box 1322, Southfield, 48075. Publishes monthly newsletter by subscription and guide to Michigan small presses. Contact above address for more info.
POETS CORNER: Features Tuesday workshops, 4-6 pm at Inner City Sub Center, 8411 E. Forest; Wednesday workshops, 4-6 pm at U of D Student Activities Bldg.
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BALDWIN LIBRARY: Birmingham, 647-1700. Feb. 7, noon-4 pm, Dungeon and Dragons Workshop. COFFEE & CONVERSATION SERIES: Birmingham Community House, 380 S. Bates, 644-5832. Feb. 11, 1:30 pm, Richard Straith, MD, The New Cosmetic Surgery. CRANBROOK / KINGSWOOD SCHOOLS: 380 Long Pine, Bloomfield,
7:30 pm, Black Women and the Struggle for Self-Determination. Feb. 14, Detroit Public Library Friends Aud., 1 pm, The Destruction of Black Civilization, Dr. Chancellor Williams, speaker. Feb. 16, WSU Hilberry Theatre, 6 pm, Black Man and Black Woman: Rebuilding Old Bonds, with R. A. Straughn and Queen Mother Moore. - CRANBROOK. INSTITUTE OF scr ENCE: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield, 6453225. Feb. 13, 8pm, Above the Clouds in the Himalayas, an illustrated lecture
Lar Lubovitch, Music Hall, Feb. 18-21
- 645-3635. Feb. 11, learn the imaginative uses of food processors. $12.50 includes ingredients.Call for time and exact location.
FIRST AID -CLASS: American Red Cross, 2388 Franklin, Bloomfield, 3343575. Feb. 10, 6:30-10:30 pm or Feb. 18, 9 am-5 pm. $5.00 materials fee. MOTOR CITY MIDWIVES BIRTH CENTER: Learn to do aftercare visits for women birthing at home. Call Marta, 255-6899 or Betty, 532-5205 for more info. _
U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILLARY: 650 W. Baltimore, 577-1415. Every Thurs. beginning Feb. 12, 7:30-9:30 pm, a 12week course on Boat Handling and Boat Safety. The only cost is for the text book. WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS: Michigan Bell Headquarters, 1365 Cass,962-7225. Feb. 14, 1-5 pm, a seminar, Getting the Most Out of Every Minute.
LECIURES
SONICS: THE SPOKEN WORD: Southfield Civic Center, 26000 Evergreen, 354-4717. Feb. 17, 8 pm, free of charge, poets Dan Minnock and George Tysh. Detroit's Hottest New
BLACK HISTORY MONTH LECTURES: Feb. 13, WSU General Lecture Bldg.,
by Dr. William Weber, a veteran of 25 Himalayan treks.
WAYNE COUNTY EXTENSION & EDUCATION CENTER: YMCA, 1601 Clark St. Feb. 10, 9:30 am, Master Shopper with Dr. June L. Sears, Home Economist.
DIA WORLD ADVENTURE SERIES: 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Feb. 8, 2:30 pm, Afghanistan Crossroads of Conquest, with Dr. Arthur Twomey. Feb. 15, 2:30 pm, Delightful Denmark, with Willis Butler. Thursday World Adventure, Feb. 12, 10:30 am, Japan! with Earl Summers.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward, Lecture Recital Hall, 8322730. Feb. 11, 8 pm, The Celebration of Man with His Secret Self: The Drawings of David Smith, lecture given by Diane Kirkpatrick, Assoc. Prof. of Art History, U of M. 5th ANNUAL QUALITY OF LIFE LECTURE SERIES: Birmingham YMCA, 400 E. Lincoln, 644-9036. Feb. 18, 7:309:30 pm, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. LAWRENCE INSTITUTE OF
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We specialize in whole-wheat pizzas, .| chapatis, & submarines. We. use all natural ingredients in our homemade sauces and dough. Our cheese is color & chemical free, & our salad dressings are all pure. So come in and try an i natural pizza and see the difference. For Cary Out 543-2372.
TECHNOLOGY: 21000 W. 10 Mile Rd., Southfield, School of Architecture Aud., 356-0200 or 356-5051. Feb. 17, noon to 1 pm, free of charge and open to the public, Detroit's Forgotten Architecture, lecture given by historical preservation expert, Tom Holleman.
RUSSELL BARNES LECTURE: Baldwin Library, Birmingham, 647-1700. Feb. 10 & 17, 1-3 pm, $2. Call for schedule.
POLITICAL
COMMITIEE TO RE-ELECT MAYOR YOUNG: Cobo Hall. Feb. 6. Call 2243750 for more info. THE FIGHT AGAINST REAGANISM: 6404 Woodward, 875-5322. Feb. 8, 7 pm. A panel discussion representing numerous youth organizations. Sponsored by the Militant Forum. FORUM ON THE REAGAN YEARS: Highland Park YWCA, 921-8398. Feb. 8, 3 pm. Sponsored by the Revolutionary Socialist League. Child care will be provided:
1981 MICHIGAN CITIZEN'S PARTY CONVENTION: Wayne State University, 341-9648. Feb. 7-8. The theme is Toward Independent Politics in the
FROM NOW TO 1984 THE ROLE OF THE PROGRESSIVE: WSU Student Center, Hilberry Aud. A. Feb. 9. Speakers- include Mike Hamlin, Madeline Talbot and Saul Wellman. Sponsored by the Detroit Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
NATIONAL ANTI-DRAFI CONFERENCE: Wayne State University, 5773451 for info. Feb. 14-15. Workshops and plenary sessions. Sponsored by the Committee veces Registration and the Draft.
NO DRAFT, NO REGISTRATION, NOU.S. INTERVENTION RALLY: WSU, Rackham Aud., 577-3451 for info. Feb. 13, 7 pm- Sponsored by the Committee Against Ree raton and the Draft.
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: 18265 Birchcrest. Feb. 6, 5:30-7:30 pm. Albie Sachs, professor of law and advisor to Mozambique government will speak. Child care will be provided. $4 admission. Albie Sachs will also speak Feb. 6 at 4 pm at Detroit College of Law, Faculty Conference Room, 135 E. Elizabeth. Sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild.
WOMEN TAKE BACK THE NIGHT: 940 W. McNichols, 571-4036 or 8755239. Feb. 21, 3-6 pm. Organizational meeting for women only.
AIRWAVES
COOLING OUT: M-F, 6-7 pm. Call 2592303 for an opportunity to air your views. Hosted by Larry Bird. WGPR, 107.5 FM.
DETROIT BLACK JOURNAL: Airs every Friday at 9:30 pm & Sunday, 2:30 pm. WIVS, Channel_56.
KING BISCUIT-FLOWER HOUR: Mondays. 11 pm. BBC-produced show presents music from rock's finest. WABX, 99.5 FM.
LIVING TREASURES OF JAPAN: Feb. 11, 8 pm. A National Geographic Special. WIVS, Channel 56. OLD N GOLD: Sunday evenings. 6:308:30 pm. Featuring R&B and Rockabilly. WDTR, 91 FM.
WDET BLUES AFTER HOURS: Sat. evenings 12-2. am. Blues with. the Coachman on WDET, 101.9 FM. WHISKEY BEFORE BREAKFAST: Sat., 11 am. Hosts Judy Donlin and local singer/songwriter Joe Vermillion bring you-the finest in folk both recorded and live. WDET, 101.9 FM. YOU & YOUR PROBLEM: Tues., 9 pm, Wilson Brown helps listeners with probJems. Phone yours in, 259-5226. WGPR, 107.5 FM.
FAMILIES
BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HOUSE:
380 S. Baters, Birmingham, 644-5832. Feb. 7, ~3-4 pm, the Tattoo Players present Little Red.
BIRMINGHAM WINTER CARNIVAL: Daily thru Feb. 7, wide variety of entertainment including a skating party, mardi gras and movies at different Birmingham locations. For info call 642-4012.
CHILDREN S MUSEUM: 67 E. Kitby, 494-1210, Parent-Child Workshops (for children aged 4-7): Feb. 7, 10 am, learn about the Chinese New Year. Feb. 14, 10 am, Storytelling Workshop for Valentine s day. Discovery Workshops (for 8-12 year olds): Feb. 7, 2 pm, Chinese Calendar Workshop. Feb. 14, 2 pm, Valentine Workshop.
CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield Hills, 645-3200. Sunday programs 1:30, 2:30 & 3:30 pm on various aspects of electricity. Feb. 8, 15, 22, 2-4 pm, the observatory will be open to view the sun. Feb. 14, am-noon, Valentine's Day Workshop for children aged 7-10. For info on this special event, call 645-3230.
DETROIT SCIENCE CENTER: 5020 John R, 833-1892. Feb. 14, 21, 28, 10 am-1 pm, workshops on electricity
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for children aged 12 & up. $20 lab fee for three classes. Call to make reservations.
- Every Tu-Su, two movies, Atmos and The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens.
DETROIT YOUTHEATRE: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Feb. 7, 11 am & 2 pm, as a tribute to Black History Month, Ishangi s Africa. Feb. 14, 11am & 2 pm, the puppet show, Great American: Bandwagon, a musical revue of US. history. =
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METRO DETROIT: 111 E. Kirby, 8718600. Feb. 14, 10:30 am-noon, for children 8-13, an international potpourti of | games and crafts ofIndochina, Panama, Germany and the Oceania Islands.
SOUTHFIELD REPERTORY THEATRE:
Southfield Parks & Rec. Aud., 354-4717. Feb. 14-15, 3 pm, Little Red Riding Hood. Admission $2.50.
BENEFITS
DISCO FOR THE UNEMPLOYED COMMUNITY HEADSTART PEOPLE: Council 25 Hail, 16861 Wyoming, 8620897. Feb. 6, 9 pm-2 am, featuring Simpson Sound and the Red Machine, beer and food. $6 at the door.
MUSICIANS UNITED TO SAVE INDIGENOUS CULTURE: DIA Auditorium. Feb. 12, 8 pm. Featuring the Aboriginal Percussion Choir with Roy Brooks and the Artistic Truth with Marcus Belgrave. Proceeds to benefit M.U.S.LC. in honor of Black History Month. Tickets $6, $7, $8. Call 341-3859 for more info.
SUPER SKI '81: Red Oaks Golf Course, Madison Heights. Feb. 7, 10 am. Cross country super-ski to benefit the American Lung Association of Southeastern Michigan. For more info, 961-1697.
EXHIBITIONS
AFRO-AMERICAN MUSEUM: 1553 W. Grand Bivd., 899-2500. Thru Feb. 28, 75 paintings by Ontario artist, T. R. MacDonald.
ARTRAIN GALLERY: 316 Fisher Bidg., 871-2910. Thru March 27, sculpture and paintings by the artist, BzzzZzzz Zz: THE ART CENTER: 125 Macomb St., Mt. Clemens, 469-8666. Opening Feb. 15 thru March 6, Michigan Annual IX, a juried exhibit for Michigan paint-ers and sculptors.
BIRMINGHAM-BLOOMFIELD ART ASSOCIATION: 1516 S. Cranbrook, Birmingham, 644-0866. Opening Feb. 7 thru Feb. 21, Student Show.
C.A.D.E. GALLERY: 8025 Agnes, 331-
1758. Thru Feb. 7, Eric Douglass Long,
photo show.
CANTER/LEMBERG GALLERY: 538 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-6623. Gallery showing of recent. acquisitions including Claes Oldenburg, Sol Lewitt and Ralph Humphrey.
CENTER FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: 245 E. Kirby, 872-3118. Feb. 11 thru March 9, Industrial Design student exhibition.
CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield. Thru March. 1, Viewpoint '81, six nationally known artists environmental pieces.
DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET: 1452 Randolph, 962-0337. Thru Feb. 12, an exhibition by Cranbrook recipients -of the Francis Sibley Alexander award. Opening Feb. 13, Michigan Potters.
DETROIT BANK CORP. BLDG.: 211 W. Fort. Four Detroit photographers in a 100-photo display, Detroit A Photographic Perspective.
DETROIT GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS: 301 Fisher Bidg., 8737888. Thru Feb. 28, an exhibition of the Crafts Department faculty of the Center for Creative Studies.
DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 5401 Woodward, 833-1805. Thru April 5, We'll Never Turn Back, an exhibition of 13 photographers associated with the Civil Rights Movement:
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward, 833-7900. Thru Feb. 22, hinese Jades from Han to Ching. Thru March 15, David Smith: The Drawings, and Ritzi and Peter Jacobi. Taru April 30, Selections from Detroit Collections.
DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: Main Branch, 5201 Woodward, 833-4043. Photogallery: thru Feb. 11, photographs by Julian Palone.
DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE
GALLERY: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347. Thru March 1, works by Nora Chapa Mendoza and Barbara Pearson.
FEIGENSON-ROSENSTEIN GALLERY: 310 Fisher Bldg., 873-7322. Thru Feb. 18, photographs by Brad Iverson. FOCUS GALLERY: 743 Beaubien, 9629025. Opening Feb. 14 thru March 14, Paper Works, drawings, photos, books by Michigan artists.
GALLERY RENAISSANCE: 400 Ren Cen, 259-2577. Opening Feb. 20, paintings by Daniel Rosbury.
GALLERY 22: 22 E. Long Lake, Bloomfield, 642-1310. Thru Feb. 27, recent paintings by Marilynn Derwenskus, Delbert Michel and Charles Gale. GRAFISKAS INC.: 218 Merrill, Birmingham, 647-5722. Wood and lucite sculp-
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ture, art posters and limited edition prints.
HABITAT: 28235 Southfield, Lathrup Village, 552-0515. Opening Feb. 7 thru Feb. 28, Marvin Lipofsky and new works by William Carlson.
HALSTED: 560 Woodward, Birmingham, 644-8284. Thru Feb. 21, photographs by Joel Meyerowitz.
-HILBERRY GALLERY: 555 S. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-8250. Opening Feb. 10 thru March 10, SES Sn by Alice
NORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER: 18100 Meyers, 224-7575. Portraits of famous people by Clarissa Johnson.
PEWABIC POTTERY: 10125 E. Jefferson, 822-0954. Opening Feb. 15 thru March 14, pottery by Joan Rosenberg and Joe Zeller. PIERCE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY: 217 Pierce, Birmingham, 646-6950. Thru Feb. 14, Quiet Images of Landforms West of the Missouri River, by Robert Adams, photographer.
Men and Machines of American Journalism.
WILLIS GALLERY: 422 W. Willis. Hours: W-Sa, 4-7 pm. Thru Feb. 14, Victoria Stoll.
WOODLING GALLERY: 42030 Michigan Ave.,. 397-2677. A craft gallery representing over 150 artists and craftspeople.
YAW GALLERY: 550 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 647-5470. Thru Feb. 11, flat woven Turkish and Persian tapestry rugs.
YOUR HERITAGE HOUSE: 110 E. Ferry, 871-1667. Thru Feb., contemporary works by young Detroit artists, Emerging Black Artists. Group tours available by reservation.
XOCHIPILLI GALLERY: 568 N: Woodward, Birmingham, 645-1905. Open- ning Feb. 14 thru March 14, Notation Series, -paintings by Doug Warner. Opening reception-Feb. 14, 2-5 pm._
AUCTION UNLIMITED: The Players Aud., 3321 E. Jefferson: Many unusual items to be auctioned. Cash bar, $5 admission. Call 882-6464 -for info. Sponsored bythe Grosse Pointe InterFaith Center for Racial Justice.
AVON WOMEN'S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP: Cobo Hall. Approximate time for semifinals: Feb. 7, 7-11:30 pm. Finals: Feb. 8, 2-6 pm.
Quiet Images West of the Missouri River by Robert Rasa Pierce St. re KLEIN, GALLERY: 4250 N. Woodward, RO, 647-7709. Thru Feb., general selections of ofiginal prints to celebrate the Gallery's 10th anniversary.
LONDON ARTS GALLERY: 321 Fisher Bidg., 871-3606. General gallery selections.
MARYGROVE COLLEGE GALLERY: 8425 W. McNichols, 862-8000. Thru Feb. 21, New Works by Detroit-area sculptor Joseph Wesner.
MORRIS GALLERY: 105 Townsend, Birmingham, 642-8812. Thru Feb. 13, group show with works by Milton Avery, Hans Hoffman and Alberto Giacometti. Opening Feb. 14, recent monotypes by Matt Phillips. ve
MUCCIOLI STUDIO GALLERY: 511 Beaubien, 962-4700. Thru Feb. 12, pottery by Andrew Ritter. House artist, Anna Muccioli. 54
MULLALY GALLERY: 1025 Hayes, Birmingham, 645-2741. Thru Feb., 5th BiAnnual National Small Painting exhibit.
PITTMAN GALLERY: 300 Ren Cen, - 259-2235. Thru Feb., paintings and collages by James Strickland.
POSTER GALLERY: 304 Fisher Bidg, 875-5211. Fine Art posters.
- PYRAMID GALLERY: 240 Grand River E., 963-9140. Thru Feb., works by Ugandan printmaker, Mathais Muleme. Pencil. drawings by Ron Scarbough. Seriagraphs by Romare Bearden.
RUBINER GALLERY: 621 S. Washington, RO, 544-2828. Opening Feb. 6 thru Feb. 28, Works on Paper.
SCARAB CLUB OF DETROIT: 217 Famsworth, 831-1250. Opening Feb. 16 thru March 7, Advertising Art. SHELDON ROSS GALLERY: 250 Martin, Birmingham, 642-7694. General gallery selections including works by Beckmann, Bearden and Grosz.
TROY ARI GALLERY: 755 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 362-0112. Thru Feb., Prints East & West, Japanese and International prints.
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: Student Center Bidg., 5221 Second, 577-2424. Thru Feb. 22, a Smithsonian show,
BLACK HISTORY MONTH FILMS: Free films at the Detroit Public Library (Main and Branch locations) throughout Feb. Films include: Blue Collar and Generations of Resistance. For a complete schedule call 833-4044, M-F, 9 am5 pm, or 833-1722 for a recorded message.
MOTHERING ART SUPPORT NETWORK: 24-hour support number if you have a problem or want to help. Lynn (Royal Oak) 546-0925 or Cheryl (Detroit) 593-1210. MAKE A CARNATION DECORATION FOR VALENTINE'S DAY: YWCA, 3211 Fort, 281-2626. Feb. 12, 10 am-noon. $3 for members, $4 non-members. RECORD COLLECTOR'S CONVENTION: American Legion Hall, 9 Mile Rd., 1 bl. W. of Middlebelt, Farmington. Feb. 15, 9 am-4:30 pm, 968-1987. DID WE MISS YOUR EVENT? It takes an eagle eye to catch all the happenings in Metro Detroit, and sometimes we miss a few. Please send future information to Linda Solomon, 2410 Woodward Tower, Detroit, 48226. The deadline for our next issue is Feb. 10. -
_ Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones... of the '80s
The Clash Sandinista
CBS Records
by Rob Hayes
hree weeks into 1981, and the year's monster of releasesalready throbs from my hi fi. No question about it, Sandinista is three discs of the best, most musically varied, testifyin that wewill ever be privileged to hear.
This is a tour de force which, not inci-, dentally, clearly shows who has bested whom in the Clash s long battle with CBS. The sessions include songwriting by all four band members, guest shots by Ellen Foley and dubmaster Mikey Dread, and were assembled without the watchful ear of an outside producer. Considerations of this kind would make little difference to your garden variety rock bands, but the Clash are a horse of quite another color. Their volatility and commitment to artistic freedom ( Death or Glory on the last LP) are anathema to the conventional wisdom in the music biz, and they, the Clash, make that work for them.
Surely Jones, Si aeanrer and company are due to be branded the Rolling Stones of the Eighties with this LP, and not without cause. The Clash, however, are definitely the more important band, in every sense of the comparison. While the. Stones reworked the American blues/R&B idiom with sex, - speed and shrewd marketing, Sandinista embraces not only Slim Harpo and Chuck Berry, but Fela, Prince Buster and Big Youth, too.
The Clash tie the world together, with their own syntheses of global rock music: Dub, high-life, bluebeat, reggae. They bring us to the world, with street reporting rendered in the voice of the Third World. You even get some downhome shuffle and gospel for your thirteen bucks.
If I'm leading you to think the record sounds like Screamin Jay Hawkins Reads Das Kapital, forgive me, and don t worry. The rebels we always hoped that the Stones would be, the Clash are.
These are multi-dimensional, compassionate and humorous men, who write and play the most powerful, downright danceable rock anywhere. You can dance to this record if you voted for Reagan; you'll want to skip the libretto, though.
The characters who populate these six sides are varied, the messages many. was truly moved by nearly every tune on the album: three small children singing words of defiance ( Guns of Brixton, Career Opportunities ) they cannot fully understand, a young man of the monied class who laments the passing of an England that never really existed ( Something About England ), plus the usual group of red-eyed Rastas, borderline criminals, garage bands, power-mad berserkers and defiant rebels.
Sandinista is a record you. should hear, if possible, own, for more good reasons than there are room for here. Perhaps the Clash themselves make it clearin Hitsville U.K. a tribute to small, adventurous record labels: The mutants, creeps and musclemen are shaking like a leaf.
It blows a hole in the radio when it hasn't sounded good all week. Your move, radio.
by Warren Westfall
ny interest in Punk music in the U.S. has been for the most part s rooted in middle-class dilettantism. It has become stylish and decadent to listen'to Punk and its sanitized corporate offspring New Wave. It is not without irony that English Punk bands such as the Clash have considerable disdain for those Americans who embrace their music for a sense of style alone. Unlike much of the New Wave, with its emphasis on power pop recycled from the sixties (the skinny-tie bands), Punk is a working class musical expression emerging out of a definite political and social milieu not a commercial one. In Britain, Punk has never been the fashion of the fashionable. Instead, the Punk movement in England has been an indigenous phenomenon. The bands and their followers share common frustrations of being young, unemployed and somehow disenfranchised. Feelings of having no cultural or political input and that even the rock music and musicians they have followed are no longer part of their experience or relevant were pervasive. Unlike their American counterparts, they
have little illusion of middle-class mobility. The music they came to produce reflected the hopelessness and anger they had come to feel for a social system that kept them in place as effectively as any caste system.
The Clash were formed in 1976 amid this social turmoil and quickly became identified as an angry band with conscious political overtones. They avoid in their songwriting the usual machosexual fare in favor of songs that reflect their concern with people s lives. Racism, sexism and the political economy are areas most of us would find unlikely as the subject matter of hit popular songs. Against a back drop of hardedged rock n roll, however, the Clash produced several top ten singles and albums that have contained uncompromising political messages at the same time.
The band s consistent use of reggae goes beyond a mere stylistic and form consideration. Reggae is a socio-political force of major proportions in Jamaican society and has been an important force in uniting blacks both politically and culturallyin Britain. It is the Clash s goal that Punk music play a similar rolein defining and expressing white, working-class sentiments in that country.
The Clash s difficulty breaking in the US. cannot be easily explained. There is an undeniable class and cultural barrier to be addressed. Compounding this. chasm is the band s working relationship with its label, resulting in a widely perceived attitude of indifference-on the company s part toward introducing them in the States.
Any band seeking popular success while seriously advocating changes which challenge the status quo of the music industry is not likely to be embraced warmly. In the words. of rhythm guitarist and vocalist Joe Strummer, You have to accept that rock 'n roll is played in enemy territory.
Although the 60s and 70s saw the widespread popularization among young white audiences of blues artists such as B. B. King, Albert King and Bobby Blue Bland, the reputation of one of the finest blues men alive, Little Milton, has not yet crossed the age or color line.
Milton, recently in town for one of his regular week-long stints at Ethel s Cocktail Lounge, still attracts mostly middleage, black audience who come to baskin the warmth of his blues guitar and rich powerful voice.
Born in Mississippi, Milton Campbell (the Little was dubbed to distinguish him from his father with the same name) began his 40-year musical career by singing in a church choir. By the age of 10 he was playing the guitar. He turned professional at 14.
In 1953 the blues trio he had formed was discovered by Ike Turner, and he signed his first recording contract. Little Milton s early recordings are the blues very much in the style of B. B. King. How-
ever, his later records fuse the blues with -some of the finest. rhythm and blues ballad singing ever pressed in vinyl.
One of his best LPs is Blues 'n Soul, recorded in 1974. His rendition of Behind Closed Doors, the country and _ western standard, is guaranteed to give goosebumps to any women withinhearing range. The warmth and sexiness - of Little Milton s voice, bringing to minda comparison with Bobby Bland, is very evident in his stage show.
Little Milton has appeared at Ethel s Lounge (on Mack just east of the Boulevard) approximately twice a year for the past eight. According to Ethel s Bob Cook, Little Milton is booked because he draws people like the way he sings the blues. The striking thing as you glance around the crowd at the lounge is how women in particular respond to his _ voice. This seems to be a contrast to many of Little Milton s contemporaries; they are primarily famous for their guitar or harp work, and their message and appeal are male in substance.
While his voice sets the entire mood of his stage presence, Little Milton s guitar work adds an important dimension to
the material. It is clean, evocative anda supplement or adjunct to his voice. He needs no gimmick name for his guitar his singing carries the blues.
Currently Little Milton lives in Chicago and is handled by Canil Productions. When not working on new material for his releases on Golden Ear Records, he tours what is commonly known as the chitterlings circuit with his six-piece band: This loop will take him through the southern states of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, as well as Midwestern cities such as Detroit with major black populations.
Little Milton says working this black club circuit is very demanding and has forced him to stay fresh in his presentation. His audience demands authentic blues but couched in modern terms. It will not stand for hackneyed blues gimmickery or formulae.
As Little Milton puts it, I try to eat. He acknowledges the various modern musical strains in contemporary Black America and uses them to reach his audience. Judging by the responses he got at Ethel s, there will always be food onthe table.
Dunfap s Debut a Delight . .
Gene Dunlap
It s Just the Way Feel
Capitol/EMI
He entered my office quietly but with a definite sense of purpose. He introduced himself, passed me his album and departed. What? No. breast beating, no fanfare and no stroking requested? A calm and unobtrusive manner is Gene Dunlap s way and it pervades his music, as well.
Dunlap s new and _ first release, It s Just the Way I Feel, might be summed up as MOR, Rhythm & Pop, easy listening, disco or a jazz-flavored mix of fusion and funk, depending on which of the tunes is under inspection.
Love Dancin , with its bouncy blend of electric piano, wah-wah bass figures and David
Gene Dunlap
McMurray s lyricon, is the most engaging arrangement and a direction Dunlap might pursue if he s to take his music beyond the typical muck that cries for our attention.
I Got You, featuring the Ridgeways, doesn't really get me, but it seems every time turn the dial to WGPR somebody s requesting it. Now, Rock Radio, where Tommy
Ridgeway's voice possesses a Ronnie Isley edge, is my own preference on this side.
Characteristically, Dunlap doesn t play up the presence of Earl Klugh, who confined himself to keyboards only. Greg Moore and Juan Gartrell,; however, offer some good acoustic guitar without becoming Klugh clones.
Some one-liners: Dunlap should allow his percussiveness to come forward.
More acoustic piano from Gloria Ridgeway (if she is the pianist).
It s Just the Way I Feel is a solid step in the right direction for all these Detroiters, and Dunlap and the Ridgeways can afford to be a bit more daring now that this first venture is safely behind them and that s the way I feel.
Herb Boyd
Bowers :
Home, Home on the
Most acoustic folk music devotees own more than one Hying Fish record. The pleasing. eclectic Chicago label has carved a comfortable notch for itself, with releases running the gamut from Nashville country musicians to blues performers
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to old-time string bands. It has introduced new talent and afforded better-known-but-noncommercial luminaries like fiddle giant Vassar Clerhents, a medium-sized alternative to smaller, less professional or larger, indifferent companies.
In the latest flurry of Fish releases, autoharpist Bryan Bowers Home, Home on the Road, Trapezoid s Now & Then, and Michiganian Joel Mabus Settin the Woods on Fire deserve attention they will probably not receive outside the fan magazines.
Bowers second album pulls off handily a blend of elements traditional and contemporary, serious and comic, instrumental and vocal. The album's finest moments occur in the grim Prison Song an unforgettable tale that. tells what the world outside don't want to know. Four Wet Pigs Remember
reaches for the othef end of the emotional spectrum with a. child-like bounciness that nonetheless is winning.
In case you think autoharp is a lightweight instrument, Bowers prowess, which provides a range of feelings from rage to joy, ought to dissuade you.
Trapezoid Now & Then Flying Fish 239
Trapezoid s Flying Fish debut, Now & Then, uses a similar brew to. woo the listener. The West Virginian four-member string band features unusual instruments such as bowed psaltery and hammered dulcimer, and the members virtuosity is complemented by the beautiful vocal harmonies of
violinist Freyda Epstein and mandolinist Lorraine Duisit. The Zoids pull off pranks like a scat jazz version of the Down Home Rag, a mountain swing version of Louis Jordan s Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens anda tune called Write Me A
Letter that explains that the singer has a boring life with nothing to communicate. Traditional tunes like Do You Love An Apple? and The Blacksmith come back to life with Trapezoid s gentle care. All told, an outstanding debut.
Joel Mabus Settin the Woods on Fire Flying Fish 235
Finally, East Lansing s Joel -Mabus has released a successor to his first album Grassroots on a local label, Grand Records. Setting the Woods On Fire was recorded at East Lansing s Ten Pound Fiddle Coffeehouse abouta year ago and demonstrates the talent that will eventually propel him to national notice. Mabus is equally literate on guitar and banjo, comes from along line of _ Southern Illinois fiddlers, and lives up to his heritage gracefully. Again a range of styles is covered, from the E. St. Louis Blues to Women of Ireland. You who are curious can hear Mabus in Birmingham Feb. 8 at the Cripple Creek Coffeehouse. Jan Loveland
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an outstanding photographer.
Starting with a 35mm camera some 15 years ago, Meyerowitz began capturing his urban street life and perceptions on black and white film. These instantaneous glimpses of life s drama give way to more contemplative studies of light, nature and quintessential rural corners of Cape Cod in his color photo series, Cape Light, on exhibit until Feb. 21 at the Halsted Gallery in Birmingham.
Joel Meyerowitz
by Barbara Weinberg
Growing up around street gangs in the Bronx, Joel Meyerowitz learned to watch and read people s signals at a very early age. Put your dukes up and keep your eyes open his boxer father told him; and now, many years later, his ability to plunge into many environments and use his visual sensitivities have earned him national recognition as
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Surrounded by Meyerowitz's images of magnificent early evening summer skies reflecting on coast and water, columned porches and fences, it is easy to understand when gallery owner Tom Halsted states, People no longer question photography as an art form. Even color photography, with its questionable longevity (fading and deterioration can happen after 30 or 40 years), is becoming less of an inhibitor to art collectors who are more interested in enhancing their lives with a beautiful image than making a profitable business investment with the artwork.
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witz original (or modest $12.95 for his book Cape Light which includes many more photos than in this exhibit), the trip to Halsted s Gallery and Meyerowitz s world will be memorable.
Armed with a large and heavy 8x10 tripod-mounted Deardorff view camera, Meyerowitz used long-time exposures to document his observations of both subtle and vivid light. A roadside fastfood ice cream stand is transformed into a deliciously colored fantasy castle at dusk; and a simple porch corner is dusted with the pastel magic ofa twilight sunset. Many of the prints are contact printed, so they are the same size as the negative (8 x10 ) and therefore retain great detail of form and color. Others arelarger.
My favorite is a friendly but mysterious interior hallway lined. with partially opened doors. At first glance the scene, entitled Hartwig House, appears monochromatic and ivory; but rainbow softness radiates this space.
Many of the photographs in this exhibit will possess, haunt and transport you to a world that most people pass
through too quickly to notice the air breathing peaceful, muted, vibrating or surreal color. Other photographs may bore you. There are also some interesting photographs from Meyerowitz s French Portfolio. .
The Halsted Gallery, located at 560 N. Woodward in Birmingham, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5:30 pm. For more information call 644-8284.
While you're in this gallery and boutique-crammed block, be sure to visit Halsted s newest next-door neighbor, Mary Wright at Xochipilli (Zo-chee-peelee), named after the Aztec god who watched after the artists, poets and musicians, exhibits some truly wonderful ceramic sculpture, hand-tinted photographs and paintings by such artists as Stephen Hansen, Rita Dibert, Yugoslavian artist Joze Ciuha and Doug Warner. Also be sure to stop into the Yaw Gallery for an awe-inspiring journeyaround the world of ethnic folk art and specially exhibited kilims, intricately woven and designed antique tapestry rugs from Turkey.
Black History Month
by Herb Boyd
Since its inception in 1926 as a project of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Negro History Week has undergone several changes, while expanding in scope and recognition. The brainchild of the eminent historian, Carter Woodson, Negro History Week is now Black History Month, and from one quick glance around the city you can readily see that the Month's festivities are as diverse as they are plentiful.
Along with the usually well-planned events that occur at such established Black institutions as the Afro-American Museum, Your Heritage House, the Shrine of the Black Madonna, Alexander Crummell Center and Operation Get Down, there are number of other institutions and organizations, especially in the last few years, which have significant programs that are worthy of mention.
Here are some highlights of Black History Month events from Feb. 5 to Feb. 18:
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Feb. 5 Burniece Avery, A Detroiter, and an accomplished actress of stage and TV will discuss Black Theatre. She is also the author of an autobiography, Walk Quietly Through the Night and Cry Softly. 10 am, Elmwood Park Branch Library, 550 Chene and Lafayette.
Feb. 5 This evening at 6 pm, Dr. JosefBen Jochanan will discuss The Aftikan Origins of Civilization in the Afrikan Heritage Room in the Manoogian building on Wayne State s campus: 577-2321. ~
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Feb. 6 The above mentioned Afrikan Heritage Room will be the topic covered at 9:30 pm on Detroit Black Journal, Channel 56. The African-American Heritage Association and its founder, Ester Gordy Edwards, will join Alex Haley and Ousman Sallah of Gambia as the room is officially dedicated.
Feb. 7 The Ishangi Dancers from West Africa will perform at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The shows are at 11 am and 2 pm. All seats are $2, and no children under 5 will be admitted. 832-2730.
Feb. 8 The noted author and historian, Dr. John Herfirik Clarke, will be the guest speaker at the 13th annual celebrity luncheon sponsored by the Detroit branch of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History the same organization that launched Black History Month. The affair will be held at the Plaza Hotel, Mackinaw Room, at 1 pm. A $17.50 donation is requested. Call 883-1444 for further info.
Feb. 10 Pianist-composer-historian, Harold McKinney, talks and plays. New Directions in Jazz is this. evening's theme. Parkman Branch Library, 1766 Oakman Bivd., 6 pm. 833-9770.
Feb. 11 The 37th Annual E. Azalia Hackley Memorial Concert. Detroit Public Library, Friends Auditorium, 17 pm. 833-4044.
Feb. 12 Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) is the lecturer at Wayne County Community College, Greenfield Campus, 5 & 7 pm.
Feb. 13 Steele Pulse, one of the top reggae bands in England will be in con-
Carter Woodson Historian cert at Wayne State in the General Lectures Building, Room 100, 7 pm. Admission is $5/$5.50. 577-2321.
Feb. 14 Dr. Chancellor Williams, the author of Destruction of Black Civilization, will hold forth at Friends Auditorium, Detroit Public Library, 1 pm.
Feb. 15 For My People (Channel 50) features an Open House for the AfroAmerican Museum. 11:30 pm.
Feb. 16 Minstrel Man, with Glen Turman, is the film at the Bowen Branch Library, 1 & 6 pm. 833-9717.
Feb. 18 Sizwe Bansi Is Dead is a two-act play with John Hardy thatis also being featured at the Bowen Branch. 7 pm.
NCAA Take-over Likely
by Pam Weinstein
Chances are, even if you're an ardent sports fan, you've never heard of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). And if the powerful National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has its way, you never will.
For all its success as the largest national-collegiate sports organization in the country, the ten-year old AIAW has had a troubled existence. That existence dangles even more precariously now, after delegates to the annual NCAA convention, held recently in Miami, voted to begin sponsoring Division women s championships.
To lose control and jurisdiction over the Division women s championships to the -overwhelmingly male NCAA would strip the predominantly female AIAW of both prestige and money. They're (NCAA) trying to start their own women s championship program, explained Donna Lopiano, newly elected president of the AIAW, and with their
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money and power .. there s no question that they will-severely damage and even kill our organization.
was never intended to be against women s athletics.
It wasn't until the AIAW had grownto an organization of 960 member institutions (200 more-than the 75-year old NCAA) that the NCAA became interested in the AIAW. When we started out, recalled Lopiano, about women s athletics or thought we'd amount to very much.
no one really cared
But amount to something it has, with much of this success flowing from solid organizing techniques and from the largess of Title IX, which guarantees equal opportunity for women in sports. Ironically, it has been the NCAA that has been most vigorous in opposing enforcement of Title IX regulations.
To halt what it felt was too much federal control, the NCAA broughta lawsuit against the government's intervention.
Ruth Birkey, the NCAA's Director of Women s Championships, says that the lawsuit has been misunderstood. We only filed the suit because of requests from member institutions. But the suit
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Though power and money are gle between the AIAW and the NCAA, the AIAW is also critical of the NCAA's highpressure recruitment tactics and the win-at-all-costs attitude, which the AIAW contends is not in the best interest of the student athletes.
Whether an NCAA takeover will be good or bad for women s collegiate sports remains, of course, to be seen. To imply that NCAA championships for women Will somehow be bad for women s athleticsis to have a head-inthe-sand attitude. How can separate but equal be fair to women athletes? argues an NCAA public relations spokesperson.
Whatever the outcome of the takeover, it appears to be inevitable. So for the women of collegiate sports, its welcome to lifein the fast lane with all the glamor and exposure and pressure and drugs and cheating and prestige that NCAA money can buy.
HELP US. STOP THE DRAFT
A number of elected officials in Washington are working hard to reinstate military conscription. The Committee Against Registration and the Draft (CARD) is organizing to oppose these efforts. We invite you to join the opposition by attending CARD s first NATIONAL ANTI-DRAFT CONFERENCE. at Wayne State University, February 13-16, 1981
RALLY
Rackham Auditorium, 60 Farnsworth (across from DIA) Friday, February 13
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Marc Stepp, Vice-Pres., UAW Joe Madison, NAACP
Tamar Rosenfeld, Cass Erma Henderson, President, Tech. H.S., CARD Detroit City Council
Russ Bellant, Pres., WSU Rev. Jim Holley, Pastor, Student Faculty Council Little Rock Baptist Church
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1978 NEW YORKER 4 door, excellent condition, many options, including power sunroof and CB, asking $4,650. 272-5073.
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EVENING INECK presented by ECKANKAR. Have you wondered about... your dreams and what they mean, the spiritual life of animals and what karma and reincarnation mean in your life now? Join us for a film presentation and talks on these subjects Thurs., Feb. 12, 7:30, Room 100, at East Hills Jr. High, Opdyke Rd., Bloomfield Hills. For more information call 576-1586. Admission free.
POLISH SONG AND DANCE ensemble is now accepting new members to learn traditional Polish folk songs and dances. The Galicja Orchestra is also opening membership to qualified musicians of traditional folk instruments. If you wish to participate in this ultimate expression of ancestral cultural heritage, call evenings 849-5702 or 365-4975.
KEYBOARDIST with local ability needed for duo, pedals a must, full-time lounge playing dinner to disco music. Seriousness preferred over experience. Cleancut appearance and attitude required. Send resume and phone number to: PO Box 4146, Dearborn, MI 48126.
LOCAL MUSICIANS An upcoming issue of the Metro Times-will feature a special review of locally pressed 45s & EPs. Send review copies to Ron Williams, DMT, 2410 Woodward Tower, Detroit, Ml 48226.
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CLUES ON KEEPING TABS_on children s school work wanted by working mother, DMT, Box 23.
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MUSLIM MINISTER WANTS all past editions of Muhammad Speaks Lessons on Supreme Wisdom (especially Ministers advanced lessons), FOI/MGT uniforms, Islamic books, jewelry, pictures,. donations and members for Muhammad's Mosque, Muhammad s University. (313) 963-9300.
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