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. well start his music packed show with attributes of the legendary opera singer jessye norman who died on monday aged 74 just in 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. 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 dog and then. the soprano developed a wide ranging repertoire that included sadie and. but she was especially noted for singing wagner jessye norman was a trailblazer of becoming one of the few african americans to achieve worldwide stardom and the opera. in 1906 she sang at the opening ceremony of the olympic games in atlanta nomen won numerous prizes to her career such as the national madoff arts and a total of 5 grammy awards including one for 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 it's kind of full it's nothing short of an extravaganza california born artist taylor makes a 24 decade history of popular music retells american history through the songs of people on the fringes of society that. first performed 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 distressed

and bands take the stage audience participation is crucial. it is a radical theory a real and this is a ritual. all right. let's sit together in the other then that is the ritual all the it is the sacrament . let's hear it may matter fields that especially members of the l.g.b. t.q. community under represented in american history a 24 decade history of popular music to tell some more inclusive story and takes us on a crazy kind of form 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 do you in your audience have to bring snacks catheters what is the secret well we marathon trained and so we started with 90 minute shows then we would do 2 hours 3 hours 5 hours 6 hours a 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 that we do it over 2 weeks and we have a couple days off in between to rest the voice and just collect my thoughts you know it's still pretty impressive but now you just show is a retelling of american history through songs throughout the ages going back to us independence and 776 i don't think that most people would associate that with drag why is drag the right medium to. well it's queer people never

get to represent anything other than queer people so it was fun for me is that i get to be the metaphor for america queer 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 deal 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 with that specific one was about the civil rights movement so we did that through the screw. mayfield song and i have the brooklyn united marching rang join us so it's is focusing on people who are building the cells because. of prejudice it's an interesting thing to fight 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 has 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 but judy yeah the musical star judy garland exactly. does that make it really difficult for people when really it's a gift you know i give it to people and if they want to use it they can use it 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 breaks you out of your patterns and so when people use my pronoun they 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 were all 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 he sing all these songs that are drinking songs and

a temperance choir comes in and they start singing and 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 . we have a good story. ok julie mack thank you so much for coming on the show i understand the berlin version which you're going to be performing is going to have accordion players choir as peaches is coming to perform weather. on the on the 12th 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. finally now techno music is huge here in berlin with parties that

last for days 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 hometown he can't party like he does in other cities following city law and 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 night time 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 for lin techno legend to me to be here the man fell in love with detroit techno and exported it to berlin 30 years ago using music he wants to create a successful night time 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 talk about everything in the hip hop to try and all and. i must say there's so much potential is one of the most important as it 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 the idea of a 24 hour nighttime economy. detroit city government is slowly coming around

especially in the greektown nightlife district although bars still close the 2 i 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 the. pop culture is is you know it fluctuates it's in and out but techno 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 ideas are being put to the test techno fans are being allowed to party until 4 am but it's home one night only since. i did they get the future not the training and that you know we need to be onboard with this way of thinking anything that you 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 of 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 day. and whether it's day or night you can find plenty of work culture news on t.w. dot com slash culture by for. the body. of. german industries are dependent on subsidies each year the german state pumps billions of euros into the private sector pledged too much some experts say to. get others believe that subsidies are necessary. what's the situation like elsewhere in europe played in germany in 30 minutes on a t w. because with

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this is d.w. news live from berlin it is crunch time again for the u.k. and its efforts to leave the european union u.k. prime minister boris johnson is about one veiled what he's calling a final directive proposal to the e.u. so what is his plan and will the e.u. take it or leave it the 1st signs are not good news also coming up more protests in hong kong as the city takes stock after.