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How Detroit's Radio Stations Shaped a Generation | Living for the City Ep. 3
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In Detroit, radio wasn't background noise. It was the whole conversation. In Episode 3 of Living for the City, host Hanif Abdurraqib traces the invisible infrastructure of Detroit's sound. Not the studios or the stages, but the airwaves. Kevin Saunderson remembers hearing the Electrifying Mojo and knowing, before he ever made a record, what music was supposed to feel like. Brian McCollum, the Detroit Free Press journalist who has spent decades refusing to let the city's music go undocumented, traces the arc from CKLW and the golden age of AM radio to the commoditized '90s that drove artists to make the music they couldn't hear on the dial. And Liz Warner, who returned to Detroit's airwaves…