MUSC 2150 Chapter Notes -Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Jerry Wexler, Motown
9 Mar 2014
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Unit 7: objectives: discuss the sound of northern pop vs. southern soul, northern pop has a graceful smooth and round timbre, similar to tin pan alley and. Southern soul is a strongly african american gospel, rhythm and blues inspired music centered mainly at the stax and atlantic labels, providing the rough, raw timbre. After some time they included choreographed dance steps, and precision in the instrumental parts, especially those laying down the groove. Southern soul includes 3-4 horns which is known as, memphis horns . There is a delayed backbeat (strong beats on 2 and 4, beats are normally weak). This type of music also includes a melisma which is a melody with no full words under it, just a syllable. It sounds impassioned: discuss the labels and producers behind the genres. He gave song writing and production duties to specialized individuals and teams: this followed the brill building/leiber and stoller approach. Smokey robinson= most successful early producer in motown.
