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The culture of Detroit, Michigan, has influenced American and global culture through its commercial enterprises and various forms of popular music throughout the 20th and 21st century. Its automotive heritage plays an important role in the city's culture.

Entertainment and performing arts

Fisher Theatre
.
Main article: Performing arts in Detroit
Further information:
Theatre in Detroit, and List of films set in Detroit

Music has been the dominant feature of Detroit's

Fisher Theatre, and the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts
.

Throughout the

Berry Gordy Jr. Popular recording acts including Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Diana Ross & the Supremes come from Detroit. During the late 1960s, Aretha Franklin, a singer-songwriter from Detroit, became America's preeminent female soul artist, recording on the competing Atlantic Records
label.

In the late 1960s, Metro Detroit was the epicenter for high-energy rock music with

Teairra Mari, Obie Trice, Trick Trick, Rock Bottom, and the late Blade Icewood, Slum Village
.

Birth to a new music culture beginning in the 2010s,

Doughboyz Cashout
began to gain popularity.

Fashion

The annual "Fash Bash," a major fashion event, typically held in the

Fox Theatre in August celebrates Detroit Fashion Week.[7] Coordinated by the Detroit Institute of Arts
, the event features celebrities and models showcasing the latest fashion trends.

Fashion designers that have enjoyed global success include Anna Sui who was born and raised in the city. The designer draws heavy inspiration from Detroit's music scene of the 1960s and 1970s including local bands such as the MC5.[8][9][10][11]

In 1991, a cultural phenomenon began among hair salons which evolved into the Detroit Hair Wars. Trendsetting salons, like Hair N Shears II, on The Avenue of Fashion, helped usher in this trend. A showcase of fantastical hairpiece creations, often using human hair as the main content, has since become a national trend among African-American hair-styling tours.[12]

Festivals and events

The giant decal on the Renaissance Center, for the 2005 MLB All-Star Game, represents 4,612 feet (1,375 m) to the home plate in Comerica Park.
Fireworks at the Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival
Main articles: Tourism in metropolitan Detroit and Sports in Detroit

Detroit has three major events that are associated with the automobile industry: the

Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival (September), Dally in the Alley (September) and Arts, Beats and Eats (September). Annual art events include the Dirty Show International Erotic Exhibition[13] (February), People's Art Festival (August), the DAMNED Exhibition[14] (October), and Noel Night[15]
(December).

The

summer events and Detroit Thunderfest hydroplane races which take place in July. African World Festival and Detroit Fashion Week happen in August. The America's Thanksgiving Parade, originally the Hudson's Thanksgiving Day Parade, is one of the nation's largest and has been held continuously since 1924.[16]

Hosted by the United Irish Societies, the Detroit St. Patrick's Parade is one of the largest St. Patrick's parades in North America and is held annually in Corktown.[17]

The day before

paczkis.[18]

The

regattas
.

Two large

KICK.[20]

Events introduced in the 2010s include the Motown Winter Blast[21] in February and the Detroit River Days[22] in June .

Ethnic culture

Further information: History of Detroit

Eastern Market Historic District. Immigrants contributed to the area's notable architecture, especially during the Gilded Age.[23]

Corktown Historic District is the oldest surviving neighborhood in Detroit, dating to the 1850s. The name comes from the Irish immigrants who settled there; they were predominantly from County Cork. The neighborhood is primarily residential, but the district does include some commercial buildings, mostly along Michigan Avenue
.

Harmonie Centre in Detroit's Broadway Avenue Historic District.

Mexicantown had a 6.9 percent population rise to 96,000 from 1990 to 2000, the city's revitalized Mexicantown has improved the local economy. About half the residents are

Most Holy Reedemer Church
is adjacent to Mexicantown.

The Detroit area's diverse population includes

Black populations, with each adding its rich cultural traditions.[25] Detroit became famous for its music legacies; major blues singers, big bands, and jazz artists—such as Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie
—regularly performed in night clubs.

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

The east necklace of downtown links

Greektown along Broadway. The east necklace contains a sub-district sometimes called the Harmonie Park District in the Broadway Avenue Historic District which has preserved part of the renowned legacy of Detroit's music from the 1930s through the 1950s and into the present.[26] The historic Harmonie Club and Harmonie Centre are located along Broadway. The Harmonie Park area ends near Gratiot and Randolph. Near the Detroit Opera House, and emanating from Grand Circus along the east necklace, are other venues including the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts and the Gem Theatre and Century Club
.

In 1959,

Motown Records, one of the first black-owned record labels. Over the next decade, a number of top artists, including The Supremes, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye
, signed with the label. The Second Baptist Church once served as "station" for the Underground Railroad. A monument to the Underground Railroad was erected in 2001 at Hart Plaza downtown.

The Shrine of the Black Madonna of the Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church was founded in 1953 by the Rev. Albert B. Cleage. One of the churches' institutions is the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore, one of the nation's oldest black-owned bookstores.

The Graystone International Jazz Museum documents jazz in Detroit.[27][28]

Perhaps the most legendary is

Woodward Avenues, as well as in the name of Joe Louis Arena
.

Cultural and social clubs

Sister cities

Detroit has seven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:[29]

Detroit has a long and very close relationship with nearby Canada Windsor, Ontario

See also

References

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  8. ^ "General Motors and Fashion Industry Target Breast Cancer Through Concept:Cure" (Press release). General Motors Corporation. PRNewswire.com. October 21, 1997. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
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  11. ^ Boyd, Kayla (November 10, 2015). "Anna Sui talks fashion, success at Michigan Theater". EasternEcho.com. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  12. ^ Sarah Klein (April 7, 2004). "Tressed to kill". Metrotimes. Retrieved September 25, 2006.
  13. ^ "The Dirty Show". The Dirty Show. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  14. ^ "DAMNED Exhibition". thatdamnedshow.com.
  15. ^ "Noel Night". Detroitmidtown.com. Archived from the original on October 31, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  16. ^ Everyone Loves a Parade Archived June 3, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. The Parade Company.
  17. ^ Baetens, Baetens (March 6, 2019). "Corktown's St. Patrick's Parade celebrates Detroit's Irish heritage". The Detroit News. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  18. ^ Robert Strybel (2/5/01). Polish fast food in America?. polartcenter.com.
  19. ^ "LGBT supporters pack Hart Plaza for biggest Motor City Pride in history". The South End. June 9, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  20. ^ Collins, Andrew. "Hotter Than July 2013 – Detroit Black Gay Pride 2013". About.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
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  22. ^ "Detroit River Days". Detroit River Days. Archived from the original on February 18, 2015. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  23. ^ "see neighborhoods". Cityscape Detroit. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  24. ^ a b Williams, Corey (February 28, 2008).New Latino Wave Helps Revitalize Detroit. USA Today. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
  25. ^ Baulch, Vivian M. (September 4, 1999). Michigan's greatest treasure – Its people Archived July 31, 2007, at archive.today. Michigan History, The Detroit News. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
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  27. ^ The Graystone International Jazz Museum Archived September 11, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  28. ^ Swinging Through Time: The Graystone Museum and the story of Detroit jazz Archived May 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  29. ^ "Sister Cities Program | City of Detroit". www.detroitmi.gov. Archived from the original on June 29, 2010. Retrieved July 1, 2010.
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  31. ^ "Città di Torino – Relazioni Internazionali". Comune.torino.it. April 7, 1998. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved July 1, 2010.

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