Event: Interstate 313: Displacement and Preservation On the Road to a Just Future

Posted January 31st, 2023 by info & filed under Advocacy, ENDANGERED, Events, ISSUES, Preservation, STORYTELLING, United Sound.

Detroit Sound Conservancy and Black Bottom Archives present a panel discussion about the impact of interstate systems on Detroit. Sunday February 26th 2pm at Main | Detroit Public Library 5201 Woodward Avenue Detroit, MI 48202 Free RSVP Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interstate-313-displacement-and-preservation-on-the-road-to-a-just-future-tickets-525794494487 Community advocates and preservation organizations Detroit Sound Conservancy (DSC) and Black Bottom Archives (BBA) present a panel […]

Grant Announcement: $100K from Mellon Foundation for Community-Based Archives

Posted January 28th, 2021 by Projects & filed under Club Heaven, Graystone, Preservation, RESOURCES, United Sound.

Detroit Sound Conservancy has been awarded $100,000 for Community-Based Archives from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation! The grant will provide two years of funding for our archive to complete physical processing and inventorying, as well as digitization, processing, inventorying and description, of our audio-visual collections. With this grant, we are focusing on three largely hidden […]

Is a service road more important than our City’s world-renowned musical legacy?

Posted August 28th, 2020 by detroitsound & filed under ENDANGERED, Preservation, United Sound.

An internationally significant Black historic site where world-altering music was recorded is to be put at risk for a highway service road. Is this OK?