MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Otis Redding, Memphis Soul, Wilson Pickett
22 Jun 2012
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2 phenomenon are influential rise of motown & the rise of southern soul: they occurred at the same time as the rise in the civil rights movement. Motown pop includes elements from tpa, rock and roll, brill building music, haven"t heard a lot. Week 6 of saxophones (mainly used in electric blues and jazz) Founded by berry gordy: lessons he gives: appeal to middle class. For example speech to get rid of regional dialect, dancing, Not as interchangeable as brill building music: producer is smokey robinson, constructed image, to not threaten white middle class: no zoot suit, no pompadour, The supremes also took classes like the temptations. Outtro apparently doesn"t exist, it"s called a coda: detroit soul was the rougher edge of motown pop compared to the temptations and the. Supremes: vocals are more improvisatory, more gospel than tpa, timbre is rougher, saxophones are prominent and give a gritty sound, nowhere to run martha and the bandellas.
