MUSC 2018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cholly Atkins, Aretha Franklin, Jerry Wexler
16 Jan 2016
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Motown stressed the element of sophistication and looking good to introduce it to a larger audience. Repeating bass line, layering throughout the song. Dancing in the street from the bbc documentary 1995. The kids were then brought up with charm, class etc adjusting and teaching them manners. The tours throughout the south had the artists facing racism as they were perceived as the freedom riders such as the boycotts etc. Maxine powell, charm school : make sure they were appealing as well as alluring but not finishing school. Classical sophistication: groomed to have good elegance, project their voices, formlaic as they had a control of the artists similar to the, 1967 motown was the most popular. way the brill building ran things. Stax made a licensing distribution agreement with atlantic. Records, having made the agreement, atlantic owned more of their master tapes their downfall, lead to their bankruptcy. Stax is known as souville, usa center of soul.
