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MUS 203 Unit 3 Exam > Soul > Flashcards

Soul Flashcards

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James Brown; Famous Flames

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standard R&B, develops funk in the 60s

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James Brown; Funk Aesthetics

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Percussive playing/singing (grunts, screams, etc)
short interlocking parts over crisp drum beats
thick polyrhythmic texture
call and response between JB and horn section
bands highly disciplined (fined/fired when they made mistakes)
energetic performance (“Hardest working man in show business”)

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Gospel/soul crossover; Ray Charles

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‘54: I Got A Woman (Gospel song, lyrics changed)

all black music influenced by this

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Gospel/soul crossover; Sam Cooke

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‘57: Left gospel for pop (You Send Me #1, 2 mil singles)

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Motown Records (Detroit); Berry Gordy

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Influenced by Cooke, left HS for pro boxing; inspired to produce music after visiting jazz clubs

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Motown Records (Detroit); Motown sound

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Simple direct lyrics; out front drum beat (steady)

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Motown Records (Detroit); Motown Artists and Producers; Smokey Robinson

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competed with Norman Whitfield to manage the Temptations and Mary Wells)

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Motown Records (Detroit); Motown Artists and Producers; Holland-Dozier-Holland

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2 dozen top 10 songs in mid 60s

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Motown Records (Detroit); The Funk Brothers

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Motown House Band (met by Gordy in jazz clubs)
James Jameson (Bass) Could play complex shit
Earl Van Dyke (Piano)
Benny Benjamin (Drums) Was a metronome
Thomas “Beans” Bowles (Sax)

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Motown Records (Detroit); Artistic Grooming; Motown Finishing School

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Maxine Powell taught how to be classy, pleasant, not vulgar

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Motown Records (Detroit); Artistic Grooming; Choreography

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Charlie Atkins - How to dance like a lady; tightened up dancing

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Stax Records (Memphis); Stax Sound

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tight rhythm section

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Stax Records (Memphis); Booker T and the MG’s

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Stax interracial house band
Booker T Washington (organ)
Steve Cropper (guitar)
Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass)
Al Jackson Jr. (Drums)
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Stax Records (Memphis); Wilson Pickett

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Big gospel artist ( Mustang sally, In the Midnight Hour)

Pioneered delayed backbeat

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Stax Records (Memphis); Otis Redding

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Big soul artist (Sittin’ at the Dock of Bay, Try a Little Tenderness) debut at Monterey Pop Festival

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Muscle Shoals Studio (Alabama); Jerry Wexler

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Fell out w/ Stax

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Muscle Shoals Studio (Alabama); Aretha Franklin

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Recorded here (I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You, Respect)

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Assassination of MLK, Jr.; Effect on Soul Music

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Race Riots, as a result, Motown moved to Los Angeles

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