Up-Tempo Motown Genres: Music Analysis

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This paper will be an updated version of my last paper which talked about a portion of Barry Gordy's background, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations and their start at Motown. How Motown was the first American music label owned by an African-American, the first music label to successfully market black artists to white mainstream audiences. How Motown was responsible for discovering, mentoring, and perfecting a lot of American popular music's most influential and successful artists and the best albums and artists and what new artists have entered Motown.

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Motown is well known for it’s girl and guy groups of the 1960’s such as the Temptations and the Supremes. The songs “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” by the Temptations and “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” by the Supremes both have a very similar pop/soul sound that represents that of Motown. Both songs have background vocals, which is consistent with Motown’s production style, as the label had more groups than solo artists. Unlike the Stax label, Motown had production teams to create their very polished and uniformed sound that is heard in both songs. The act of being spontaneous was not a practice used by Motown, and can be better identified with the songs produced by Stax.

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Whenever someone says Motown, some might not know what that means, but for others it’s a huge part of American history. Motown has played a huge roll in history in many ways, and it has changed the way America is today, so one might say that this played a huge roll in history. Motown records had a role in the civil rights movement, many artists had success with the record label, and it achieved many crossover success stories.

The genre I chose is R&B. Count Basie, Louis Jordan, and The Harlem Hamfats are some of the pioneers that started R&B. R&B music came into prominence in the late 1940s with Cab Calloway. The term Rhythm & Blues (R&B) was the first coined in 1948 by music journalist turned producer Jerry Welxer ( one of the main record industry players behind music from the 1950s through the 1980s).

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The Rap Yearbook is a book that tells you the songs in the Hip-Hop genre which are the most important rap song from every year since 1979, discussed, debated, and deconstructed. Each song from each year brings a new element that has had a major impact to Hip-Hop. Some of these artists have become iconic in the genre, and people have respect for these people telling their stories. Some iconic artists are Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., and Rakim. There are also groups who have made their mark in rap such as Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, and N.W.A. These men told stories, some were depressing, some were violent, but people listened to them. You can say whatever you want about them how you either love or hate them, but you can’t say they haven’t

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