MU121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Berry Gordy, Cholly Atkins, Lamont Dozier
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Chapter 6 - motown pop and southern soul. During 1950s, african american artists less successful than white artists, signed to independent labels. Changed toward end of decade, british invasion took inspiration from aa music. Regional centres of aa music - detroit (motown records), chicago, memphis, muscle shoals (alabama), and atlanta. Acceptance of black music resembles america"s acceptance of aa culture. Berry gordy jr. and black music for white audiences. Worked in his fathers record store, spent time in jazz clubs, wrote songs for jackie wilson (some became hits) Modelled records off of already successful songs. Gordy, mickey stevenson, smokey robinson were in charge of much of the songwriting and production from 1960-64. Brian holland, lamont dozier, eddie holland (h-d-h) dominated motown from 1964-67 (wrote for the supremes, the four tops, etc) Normal whit eld emerged after 1967 for the temptations. Many of the band members pulled from detroit"s jazz scene, band known as the funk.
