<b><i><b>Acid Detroit</b></i><b>tells the story of Motor City through its revolutionary music past and present, in order to find the seeds of radical transformation among its ruins.</b></b><br><br><b><i>Acid Detroit</i> is an exhilarating, technicolour view of Detroit’s musical and social history from the 1960s to the present day. <br></b><br>Redefining the counterculture as a time of Acid Communism, <i>Acid Detroit</i> diverges from most books on the Sixties, which centre on California, to show that Detroit was an unequalled hotbed of radical activism, urban unrest and sonic innovation. <br>Considering Detroit''s unique mix of people and cultures and enduring sonic legacies, it covers everything from incendiary garage rock, to European-influenced techno and experimental hip-hop crews, intertwining the artist’s lives and works with the city’s rise and decline, from its establishment as an industrial powerhouse to the high point of Motor City, into