Motown is some of the greatest shit ever recorded
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Date: December 28th, 2024 11:43 AM Author: Saffron Know-it-all Feces
part of the answer is Holland-Dozier-Holland.
and listen to Levi Stubb's vocals on this HDH song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EaflX0MWRo
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Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:15 PM Author: High-end boltzmann
music "sounding black" is really interesting, because in the cultural moment it can be the LOUDEST part of a piece of recorded music - the most noticeable, the most signified, to use a grad-schooly term.
But as time passes, that signifying gets completely lost. It would be like deleting a central component of the piece of art, and no one really notices.
I got thinking about this while listening to Louis Armstrong & Hot 5 stuff recently. It has swagger and attitude, but there is no overt blackness there... no danger, no threat to race relations, no encroachment on white space, etc.
I think this comes into play with Motown. I bet to contemporary and fresh ears a lot of what was heard was "black". And now there's none of that.
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