It’s the Same Old Song As we progressed through discovering the art Motown‚ we start to notice patterns on some aspects of the Motown artists. The way they dress being a major one‚ as well as their style of dance movements‚ hand gestures‚ and facial expressions. The style of these well-known artist was iconic‚ most of the males wore matching suits with an unbuttoned collar. Females generally wore matching dresses with what we would consider today classic 60’s women’s hairstyle‚ with the straight
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musician or ensemble‚ or composed for a particular instrument or group of instruments‚ voice or choir (Wikipedia). Founded by Berry Gordy Jr‚ Motown is a record company in Detroit‚ Michigan‚ United States that was incorporated on April 14‚ 1960. With a variety of genres incorporated within the record company‚ from 1961 to 1971‚ Motown had 110 top 10 hits. Motown acts were enjoying a widespread popularity among black/white audiences alike where William “Smokey” Robinson stated “Into the ’60s‚ I was
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Brief History of Motown Motown Records was the first African-American-owned music label and featured the first African-American performers to achieve success with mainstream white audiences. Motown’s impact on 1960s culture played a major role in the integration of pop music. In producing hit records for African-American artists such as Diana Ross and The Supremes‚ The Temptations‚ Stevie Wonder and many others‚ Gordy did his part in the fight for racial equality at a time when King and other civil
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The Motown Museum in Detroit is truly a motivational part of America’s history; it stood for another way for African American voices to be heard on a much greater scale both national and even world wide. Motown has become America’s pop soul music for anyone and everyone. The birth of Motown music came to be in a small recording studio aptly named Hitsville‚ U.S.A. Barry Gordy‚ who came from a large middle class family had borrowed money in order. The main stage of Motown music came from a small
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Berry Gordy Jr. was born in Detroit‚ Michigan on November 28‚ 1929. He was the seventh born out of eight siblings. His parents migrated to Detroit from Georgia during 1922. They were part of a mass exodus of African Americans who left the South in the 20’s and traveled to northern cities in search of better economic futures. During that time jobs were plentiful in the factories‚ mainly the big four automotive plants that like‚ Chrysler‚ Ford‚ Chevrolet‚ and General Motors. <br><br>Berry and Bertha
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“Can’t Forget the Motor City”: Why Leaving Detroit Ruined Motown Dylan Morris TASP 2005 Mark Clague and Derek Vaillant 5 August 2005 Morris 1 In 1959‚ Berry Gordy‚ Jr.‚ a 30-year-old songwriter and entrepreneur‚ started a record company in Detroit. He called it Tamla Records. The company had an auspicious debut. Within the year‚ it had released a major hit: Barrett Strong’s “Money (That’s What I Want)” climbed to number two on the Billboard Rhythm and Blues charts. In 1960‚ it had its first number
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In fact I came away from that interview liking you guys even more. I think one of the things that I found interesting was that the image for the Motown Philly video did not come from you guys. Was there ever a time that maybe the management or label didn’t want you all to release a certain song‚ perform at a particular venue‚ or maybe do a certain video but you did it anyway and how did it work out
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1961 Gordy then created a record label named Motown‚ a subsidiary of Tamla‚ which would perform the soul music that Gordy hoped to sell to America. As well as setting up Motown Gordy set up other subsidiaries such as Miracle‚ Mel-O-Dy‚ VIP‚ and Divinity. Ward (1998‚ p. 260) states that ‘this strategy was primarily designed to protect against the possible failure of individual labels.’ (Ward‚ 1998) This meant that for example if Divinity collapsed Motown could continue unaffected by the collapse. Furthermore
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hide away from the unattractive and embarrassing personality that would jeprodise their hit single. Manufacturing pop artists is thought to be a 21st century trade. However‚ we can trace certain manufactured stars back as far as the the late 1950’s. Motown‚ the famous funk and soul label‚ founded by Berry Gordy Jr. was one such label that completely manufactured their artists to keep them in tune with the current music climate. Gordy set up compulsary classes that his artists and session musicians had
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The reason I picked this work of art is because a lot of African Americans has some type of form or pictures of it. African Americans who was born through the 1950’s knew exactly what the artwork is and could relate to it. As a kid growing up‚ my father and grandmother had a duplicate of the Art. Also another reason I picked‚ the sugar shack it’s so much history in the painting. At first glance you can see a Marvin Gaye banner is hanging up in the painting. As one of the icons‚ especially having
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