# Living for the City

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Author: Side Stage
Episodes: 3

## Resource

Before Detroit gave the world Motown, techno, and hip-hop, it gave the world something harder to name: a feeling that music made in basements and backrooms and borrowed spaces could become the soundtrack to an entire generation's life. That is the story Living for the City is here to tell, and nobody alive is better equipped to tell it than Hanif Abdurraqib. MacArthur Fellow. New York Times bestselling author. The most gifted writer working at the intersection of music, memory, and American identity today. Hanif brings his singular voice to a new video podcast series that goes inside the streets, venues, and neighborhoods where iconic sounds are born, talking with the artists, DJs, producers, and community architects who built these movements from the ground up. Season One is Detroit. Eight episodes. The full arc of how one city became the unlikely origin point for some of the most influential music ever made, told by the people who were actually there, and the writer who understands better than anyone what it meant. This is not a music history lesson. This is a front-row seat to the moments that mattered. Living for the City premieres May 13th, with new episodes dropping weekly.…

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## Episodes
- [The Buildings That Built Detroit's Sound Are Almost All Gone  | Living For the City Ep. 2](https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-for-the-city-7841880/the-buildings-that-built-detroit-s-sound-are-almost-all-gone-living-for-the-city-ep-2) — 2026-05-20T13:57:00+00:00
- [How Detroit's Working Class Built the Sound the Whole World Stole | Living for the City Ep. 1](https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-for-the-city-7841880/how-detroit-s-working-class-built-the-sound-the-whole-world-stole-living-for-the-city-ep-1) — 2026-05-13T14:29:00+00:00
- [Living for the City (Official Trailer): Premieres May 13th!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-for-the-city-7841880/living-for-the-city-official-trailer-premieres-may-13th) — 2026-05-10T12:27:00+00:00

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