Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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Delroy Demontegnac
Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 20-23

5) Comments I have:
• During this 1960’s Motown artistes were hit makers making a lot of hits internationally worldwide.
• They wanted to move Motown but Gordy figure out he did then more conflicts and problems he would face to move.
• Two people fought in Motown records and this brought the popularity down.
• Gordy gave his house to his sister and moved to Boston with was very depressing for him and brought him down.
• A lot of Motown artistes challenged their contracts and wanted more.
4) Insightful questions I have:
• Did Motown sell more than different record labels?
• Did a lot of music artistes’ transfer from Motown to a new label?
• What cause Gordy to be depressed?
• Which artist helped increase Motown popularity?
3) Vocabulary:
• Donovan
• Contours
• Crammed
2) Examples of literary terms:
• Man Vs Man
• Man Vs Society

• Summary:
• A lot of artistes wanted to work for different record labels because of how Motown treated them and the amount of money they were paid.

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