Motown gave soul music broad appeal with its iconic beat, earworm hooks, and call-and-response gospel vocals. But the Detroit label, founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records in 1959, was much more ...

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DETROIT (Reuters) - Motown has always been about more than music. As the soul empire turns 50 on Monday, its founders are looking back at its brand of music dubbed the "Motown sound" that remains ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Margena A. Christian, University of Illinois Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) During the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Berry Gordy were each born in 1929. Both Black men helped shape the 1960s, King with his marches and powerful oratory and Gordy as the founder of the Motown record label.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like so many kids growing up in the 1970s and ’80s, Robin Terry was a fan of Motown’s music and its cavalcade of stars. But for ...