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Marsha Battle Philpot, also known as Marsha Music, is one of the curators of the Black Bottom and Paradise Valley portions of In the Neighborhood: Everyday Life on Hastings Street, Jewish Historical Society of Michigan's exhibit in the Community Gallery. Learn more about Black Bottom and Paradise Valley and her father's store, Joe's Record Shop, a fixture in the neighborhood.A self-described “primordial Detroiter” and a “Detroitist,” Music is an activist and an acclaimed writer. In 2012 she was awarded a Kresge Literary Arts Fellowship. In 2015 she received a Knight Arts Challenge Award. In 2016 she was the opening speaker for the Detroit Historical Museum’s Detroit 67 Project. Music is the daughter of legendary pre-Motown record producer, the late Joe Von Battle. Von Battle’s landmark record shop and recording studio are featured in In the Neighborhood.
Meet her in the Robert and Mary Ann Bury Community Gallery as you tour the exhibition! No registration is required.
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Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit Historical Museum, 5401 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, United States,Detroit, Michigan
