Re-print published by Bookbeat Gallery Press. First published by the Detroit Artist Workshop in 1965 in a limited edition of 500 copies. This Is Our Music is a visual, lyrical and high-impact poetry tract which contained the passionate seeds of John Sinclair‘s early radical politics.
John Sinclair is known as the founder of the Detroit Artists Workshop and the White Panther Party, manager of The MC5, producer of the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festivals and of records by artists from Deacon John to Sun Ra, political prisoner and opponent of the marijuana laws since 1965, radio broadcaster at WDET and WWOZ and originator of the live coverage of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, pioneer of podcasting and proprietor of his own internet radio…
After the Detroit riots of 1967 the White Panther Party grew out of the Detroit Artists’ Workshop, a collective under the leadership of John and Leni Sinclair, which radically dedicated their creativity to “a total assault on the culture”. Politics, music, psychedelica, and arts were fused into a revolutionary force with The MC5’s rock and Gary Grimshaw’s graphic design as…