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The White Stripes join the Rock Roll Hall of Fame − their primal sound reflects Detroit’s industrial roots

  • Written by Nathan Fleshner, Associate Professor of Music Theory, University of Tennessee
Musicians Jack White and Meg White are standing and wear red clothes

In the opening scene of “It Might Get Loud,” a 2008 music documentary, musician Jack White appears surrounded by scrap wood and garbage. He hammers nails into a board, wraps wire around a glass Coca-Cola bottle as a makeshift guitar bridge, attaches a pickup, and plugs the contraption into a vintage Sears Silvertone amplifier –...

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