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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Motown"”.
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Sounding Elsewhere, Sounding Everywhere: Listening to the Background from Motown and Beyond
… on the role of The Andantes and their work with Motown between 1961 and 1970 and The Blossoms and their work Philles and tenure on Shingdig!. The project use a range of archival material in various formats including vinyl recordings, audio recordings of live performances, televised performances, …
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The Social and Cultural Changes that Affected the Music of Motown Records From 1959-1972
<p>Motown Records produced many of the greatest musicians from the 1960s and the 1970s. During this time, songs like "Dancing in the Street" and "What's Going On?" targeted social issues in America and created a voice for African-American people through their messages. Events like the Mississippi …
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Love and Determination Suite Composed in the Style of the Motown Sound from 1961 to 1969
The Motown Sound is an umbrella term coined as the name of the specific type of R&B music produced by Motown Records during its years of greatest success. This thesis presents an original composition entitled Love and Determination Suite which demonstrates and expands on the composers understanding …
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Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and the Civil Rights Movement: A History and Analysis
… history of the Detroit record label known as Motown. The collaboration of musicians and engineers at Motown, along with Gaye’s influences from his personal life and music career, had profound effects on the outcome of What’s Going On. Chapters 3 and 4 provide analyses of individual songs from …
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Voodoo Love
… the video takes us into a world where classic Motown style meets the world of campy horror films. Voodoo Love is also the first local jazz video to be produced in high-definition video. It includes appearances by Lischelle Brown, Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief Alfred Doucette, blues player Big Al …
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Underrepresentation of Non-white Students in a Secondary Gifted Program: The Students’ Experience
… gifted students that graduated from the Motown school district were the focus of this research and were used to inform this study. The participants of the study were asked to share their experiences while in the gifted program. In addition to their narrative statements, semi-structured …
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O funk paulista como forma de expressão identitária e de influência urbana
… a criação de uma vertente da soul music, chamada motown soul, provocada pelas formas urbanas dos bairros das comunidades negras de Detroit. Aplicando essa análise à cidade de São Paulo foi feita uma investigação qualitativa, através de uma etnografia virtual, junto de apreciadores, seguidores ou …
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Performing fandom on the British Northern soul scene : competition, identity and the post-subcultural self
… The records - often poor emulations of the Motown sound - were disregarded, and subsequently discarded, by intended audiences. With a treasure trove of rare records laid forgotten, the Northern Soul record collector began his search for the ignored vinyl gems that would soon become Northern …
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Funk My Soul: The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the Birth of Funk Culture
… profoundly challenged the creative centers of Motown, Stax, and Hollywood to offer their own interpretations of funk. In the context of these chapters, purveyors used funk modes of expression to react to the death of Dr. King, express black pride, comment on the broader problems of black …
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James Jamerson: From Jazz Bassist to Popular Music Icon
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Detroit blues women
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>DETROIT BLUES WOMEN</p> <p>by</p> <p>Michael Duggan Murphy</p> <p>August 2011</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. John J. Bukowczyk</p> <p>Major: History</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>"Detroit Blues Women" explores how African American "women's blues" survived the twentieth century …