look back on the trail blazing career of jessye norman also coming up. drag performer extraordinaire taylor max sings $24.00 decades of american music in 24 hours the artist will be here to tell us more about this epic undertaking. and can techno music help turn around struggling neighborhoods in one of the sounds birthplaces the city of detroit. we'll start this music packed show with attributes of the legendary opera singer jessye norman who died on monday aged 74 just norman's vocal range was just enormous and that became her nickname critics described her singing as sumptuous and penetrating new york's metropolitan opera has called her one of the best sopranos of the last half century. jessye norman

enchanted opera fans around the she was born in the southern u.s. state of georgia but launched her career in germany where she won an international music competition and $968.00 a year later she made her operatic debut at the unburned in. the soprano and developed a wide ranging repertoire that included sadie and. she was especially noted for singing. jessye norman was a trailblazer of becoming one of the few african americans to achieve world wide stardom and the opera. in 1960 sang at the opening ceremony of the olympic games in atlanta nomen won numerous prizes throughout her career such as the national madoff arts and a total of 5 grammy awards including one from lifetime achievement she also want to claim as a jazz singer but her heart always belong to the opera. jessye

norman famously said that pigeon holes are for pigeons now this next performer is just about impossible to pin down and you'll see why in a moment taylor mack is touring the world with the show a 24 decade history of popular music it's an epic retelling of american history in drag. i'll be talking to taylor mack after this quick look. smiled and colorful it's nothing short of an extravaganza california born artist taylor makes the 24 decade history of popular music retells american history through the songs of people on the fringes of society. first before the show in 124 hour run and brooklyn new york what sounds like a one man show is much more than that and not only dances acrobats are constructed

and bands take the stage audience participation is crucial. it is a radical theory a real mess so the rich. have the right people to gather in the other then that is the ritual all the it is the sacrifice. but it's your day maxfield's that especially members off the l.g.b. t.q. community are under represented in american history a $24.00 decade history of popular music tells a more inclusive story and takes us on a crazy california right through the decades. and here with me is taylor mack welcome to the south thanks for having me ok so

taylor you premiered your show in this one time 24 hour marathon event since then you've been performing you're doing just these little 6 hour can i hear nothing but . how do you do it i mean just how do you do it physically during your audience have to bring snacks catheters what's the secret well we marathon train did so we started with 90 minute shows and we did 2 hours 3 hours 5 hours 6 hours couple 12 hours and then we did the 24 hour show but now we tour it is for sex. there were shows over 2 weeks so it's the entire thing but we do it over 2 weeks and we have a couple days off in between to rest the voice and just collect my thoughts and it's still pretty impressive but just show is a retelling of american history through songs throughout the ages going back to us independence in 776 i don't think that most people would associate that with drag wives drag the right medium to. well it's queer people never

get to represent anything other than queer peoples so it was fun for me is that i get to be the metaphor for america where is the metaphor and the idea is that we're stretching towards something that's different from us to try to understand it but also to see it in a different way i'm our own history shown to us from a different perspective and that's that allows us to see more details and to get more specific about who we are as a people and what we want for the future now with that in mind i want to play a short clip from your show which we're going to talk about just after this is you performing curtis mayfield civil rights and move on up from 1970.

i just want to ask you why did you want to include that song on your show well every decade of the show we do with a different community and us history that was falling apart being torn apart because it was being torn apart it was building itself so we do we deal with the jewish immigration. and that community and in the tenements and then that specific line was about the civil rights movements only that to this cause. mayfield song and i have the brooklyn united marching rang join us so it's it's focusing on people who are building the cells because. of prejudice it's an interesting thing to the to study each and every decade and find a different community from our history where that's happening and there's plenty of them out there so i just want to get a little personal now if that's ok with you have just been preparing for this interview for meeting you i've been reading a lot about the buzz that you've been creating with your choice of personal pronoun

you've asked have to be called she or she or they judy yeah the musical star judy garland exactly. does that make a really difficult for people when well it's a gift you know i give it to people and if they want to use it they can use that i don't mind it when people use other ones but for me it's just fun my pronoun is an art piece so art is there to help bring a little pause to your life it breaks you out of your patterns and so when people use my pronoun they kind of go they don't know what to do and also makes people laugh and makes them smile that's a nice thing sometimes they roll their eyes but then it immediately makes them camp because you can't say judy without being camp you know ok i just want to show another little clip of your show this is a song suo gone. which we know about this briefly this is so well. and at one point we will be seeing all these songs that are drinking songs and

a temperance choir comes in and they start singing and i drinking songs and we kind of do a battle between each other for an hour and this was us coming together ok let's take a quick look at that. this man. you have a good story. ok drooler max thank you so much for coming on the show i understand the berlin version which are going to be performing is going to have accordion players. as peaches is coming to perform with. on the on the 12 just so many different performers from berlin that we're bringing into the show and making it fresh i would expect no less thank you so much taylor mack thing. finally now techno music is huge here in berlin with parties that

last for decades but in the u.s. city of detroit one of the birthplaces of techno nightlife is a lot more restricted so now some d.j.'s are saying that staying up later could give a city on hard times a much needed boost. in. detroit d.j. john collins has been famous on the world's techno scene for decades but here in his home town he can't party like he does in other cities following city law dance floors in detroit have to shut down at 2 am. techno fans in detroit want nightlife to go on for longer and bring more business to poorer areas of the city they've been looking at transforming abandoned buildings into clubs and arts centers. feel that a nighttime economy will now only extend the entertainment. aspects of nighttime but also bring jobs jobs to the short words there could be clubs there

could be restaurants there could be galleries that could actually employ people oh please lynn techno legend to me t. hey man fell in love with detroit techno and exported it to berlin 30 years ago using music he wants to create a successful nighttime economy similar to berlin's hagerman collins and others from the detroit berlin connection to help make it happen. i think the music especially with not just talking about techno we talked about i was singing the hip hop to try and all and. i must say there's so much potential it's one of the most important s. that detroit has where people see problems i see opportunities. in detroit berlin connection has an ongoing petition to get the city government to lift its 2 am dancing curfew members also attend events to sell their idea of a 24 hour nighttime economy. detroit city government is slowly coming around

especially in the greektown nightlife district although bar still close at 2 am. adrian tomine as the city's 24 hour economy ambassador his job is to work with clubs and event organizers to help nightlife including techno thrive. pop culture is is you know it it fluctuates it's in and out but tech no i don't think it's ever something that's going to stop i think europe is has a huge techno community it did start here and i think there's going to be something new here at the detroit berlin connections i do years of being put to the test techno fans are being allowed to party until 4 am but it's home one night only just so. i did they get the future of the train and that you know we need to be on board with this way of thinking anything that and not keep the crowd around whether it's good news a good company and then we're here for

a long time well enjoy or not. a small corner off detroit raves late into the night maybe these nights will become as normal as they are in the german capital where the party can last all night and state. and whether it's day or night you can find plenty of work culture news on t.w. dot com slash culture by for now.

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