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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Great Lakes‚ was the biggest city of heavy industry in the 1950s and 1960s. The Big Three automobile companies such as Ford‚ GM and Chrysler‚ had their manufacturing plants in Detroit at that time. People called this city as Motown‚ a compound word of Motor Town. Berry Gordy Jr. came back to Detroit after the Korean War in 1953 and he run a jazz record store with his friends. He was absorbed in blues and bebop and used to write songs as his hobby. Since he was a versatile person‚ he tried various
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Berry Gordy: The founder of Motown Berry Gordy‚ Jr.‚ was born in Detroit Michigan on November 28‚ 1929. He was the seventh of eight children of Berry‚ Sr. and Bertha Gordy. Berry Gordy‚ Jr. dropped out of the school after his junior year to become a professional boxer; he decided to get out of the fight game at about the time the Army drafted him in 1951. In 1953‚ he married Thelma Coleman and in 1954 his first child was born‚ a daughter Hazel Joy. By 1959 they had two other children‚ named
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influenced American music throughout the years‚ Motown has been the most influential. Motown is the most significant era in popular music because it completely broke racial barriers and created a style of catchy music that lives on today. Before Motown‚ music was old‚ tired‚ and segregated. Jazz had been popular for so many years‚ it was time for something new and that’s exactly why Berry Gordy began the pop culture sensation that we know as Motown. Before Motown‚ artists were not judged by their talent
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individual 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
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brought hits from all kinds of different singers and groups‚ it was called Motown. Motown was founded by Berry Gordy on January 12‚ 1959. Berry Gordy had borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family to start a record company. The name‚ a combination of motor and town‚ had also become a nickname for Detroit. Gordy applied the principles he learned in the factory for production of records and creation of musical groups. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an
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Why was Berry Gordy significant in the development of the American Soul music genre? The aim of this essay is to analyse what significance Berry Gordy‚ the founder of the Tamla record label‚ had to the American Soul music genre. To accurately analyse this it is important to research and understand how Gordy ran Tamla and why he started the label. All the decisions he made involving Tamla would have an affect on the American Soul music industry because of the huge popularity of Gordy’s music.
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Motown Records marketed their releases as an all-inclusive “Sound of Young America” and succeeded in selling their records to both white and black audiences. Motown’s focus on the subject matter of the songs‚ the presentation of their artists to the public‚ and the perception that they remained at least neutral on political and social issues aided in their ability to crossover. This is the accepted narrative in the retelling and analysis of Motown Records in the 1960s. Suzanne Smith‚ in Dancing
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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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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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