How do you define a generation? Relate to a whole ethnicity? Or make everyone come together as one? The answer is with music. In 1959 a man named Berry Gordy made a small business in Detroit Michigan with a small loan from his family to start something amazing. This amazing thing was a recording studio by the name of motown records.
Berry Gordy was the son of a Plantation owner and his female slave. They relocated to detroit because his father found a better job working for the automotive businesses. Growing up he saw the way they made cars and thought “why can 't you do that with music?” With help from family he was able to come up with motown records with a 800$ loan. He was encouraged to keep going because of his friend smokey robinson. By starting his recording studio he brought in only african americans to play. It started with a riff and everyone in the band built up upon it. This was the start of not only african americans gaining the mainstream audience but started a system of music making. This system introduced the idea of session players. This idea advanced music and gave future artist their very own platform to build upon. Many players came into motown looking to hit big. Some big time names are the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Jimmy Ruffin, the Contours, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, the Commodores, the Velvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5. All the artist earned mainstream success and made great careers from motown. The biggest group to come out of motown was the jackson 5. They are the group that defined motown and their success that they had made. Gordy 's influence on african americans in america was shown greatly on what he would do with artist. He taught them how to act in public, how to dress, and how to act. This was key to gaining respect from whites. It showed them that they can be equal and that they 're all just humans. It gave everyone in america an understanding of equality between everyone. Later on in the recording studios career it was decided that they needed to move. Detroit was becoming too dangerous of a city to live in for everyone there. So they grabbed everything and moved to L.A. there they started to gain more and more artists. They began to keep selling but after a while they began to flat line with profits. In june 1988 Gordy sold the recording studio for $61 million. He then later sold the catalog for $330 million. Now that 's the story of motown without all the good parts in it. When i say good parts i mean the amazing artist they had come in. one of their many famous artist was Barrett Strong. He put the record studio on the map with their hit “money (that 's what i want)”. It was written by berry gordy and janie bradford. …show more content…
He gave every African American a chance to be accepted by white communities. He was secretly one of the biggest helps to civil rights communities. Not only did he help African Americans he helped white people connect with them. It was amazing how music brought them all together. Music didn 't care if you were white black asian mexican christian muslim. Music just wants everyone to come together as human beings and for you not to judge one another it truly is an amazing masterpiece of art.
The music that motown made was good nothing can beat it. It had amazing riffs and rhythms that everyone can dance to. But not only did it make you happy it gave people something to relate to during the times. It gave the people motivation to want to reach where the artist were to join them on stage. It inspired many future artists like Taylor swift, ted nugent, and fleetwood mac. Even today you turn on the radio you can still hear their music play. People will always remember their music and it will be taught to more and more generations. As long as the music is there, their stories will always be told and how music brought blacks and whites together as one. Not as separate races but as one generation of
Berry Gordy was the son of a Plantation owner and his female slave. They relocated to detroit because his father found a better job working for the automotive businesses. Growing up he saw the way they made cars and thought “why can 't you do that with music?” With help from family he was able to come up with motown records with a 800$ loan. He was encouraged to keep going because of his friend smokey robinson. By starting his recording studio he brought in only african americans to play. It started with a riff and everyone in the band built up upon it. This was the start of not only african americans gaining the mainstream audience but started a system of music making. This system introduced the idea of session players. This idea advanced music and gave future artist their very own platform to build upon. Many players came into motown looking to hit big. Some big time names are the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Jimmy Ruffin, the Contours, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, the Commodores, the Velvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5. All the artist earned mainstream success and made great careers from motown. The biggest group to come out of motown was the jackson 5. They are the group that defined motown and their success that they had made. Gordy 's influence on african americans in america was shown greatly on what he would do with artist. He taught them how to act in public, how to dress, and how to act. This was key to gaining respect from whites. It showed them that they can be equal and that they 're all just humans. It gave everyone in america an understanding of equality between everyone. Later on in the recording studios career it was decided that they needed to move. Detroit was becoming too dangerous of a city to live in for everyone there. So they grabbed everything and moved to L.A. there they started to gain more and more artists. They began to keep selling but after a while they began to flat line with profits. In june 1988 Gordy sold the recording studio for $61 million. He then later sold the catalog for $330 million. Now that 's the story of motown without all the good parts in it. When i say good parts i mean the amazing artist they had come in. one of their many famous artist was Barrett Strong. He put the record studio on the map with their hit “money (that 's what i want)”. It was written by berry gordy and janie bradford. …show more content…
He gave every African American a chance to be accepted by white communities. He was secretly one of the biggest helps to civil rights communities. Not only did he help African Americans he helped white people connect with them. It was amazing how music brought them all together. Music didn 't care if you were white black asian mexican christian muslim. Music just wants everyone to come together as human beings and for you not to judge one another it truly is an amazing masterpiece of art.
The music that motown made was good nothing can beat it. It had amazing riffs and rhythms that everyone can dance to. But not only did it make you happy it gave people something to relate to during the times. It gave the people motivation to want to reach where the artist were to join them on stage. It inspired many future artists like Taylor swift, ted nugent, and fleetwood mac. Even today you turn on the radio you can still hear their music play. People will always remember their music and it will be taught to more and more generations. As long as the music is there, their stories will always be told and how music brought blacks and whites together as one. Not as separate races but as one generation of