6 résultats pour "motown"

• Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye (1939-1984), American singer and songwriter, a recording artist for Motown Records, and one of the most popular and influential singers of rhythm-andblues music (R&B) in the 1960s and 1970s.

• Diana Ross Diana Ross, born in 1944, American popular singer, one of the most influential recording artists of the Motown era (1960s) and the disco period of rhythm-and-blues (R&B) music (late 1970s to early 1980s).

• Detroit - geography.

  of German and Irish immigrants. In the first half of the 20th century, the percentage of foreign-born residents declined, even though many immigrants arrived fromeastern Europe. During World War II (1939-1945), both whites and blacks were attracted from the South to work in the city’s defense industries. In 1950 foreign-bornand black residents each made up about 16 percent of the total population. In the five decades after 1950, the city lost almost half of its population, as many white resident...

• Marvin Gaye.

• soul, musique

  galvaudé et, à l’exception notable de quelques figures telles que Al Green, Isaac Hayes ou Gil-Scott -Heron (héraut d’une révolution afro-américaine), ne caractérise plus qu’un ensemble en déliquescence. De nouvelles figures parviennent cependant à renouveler l’esprit des « pionniers » de la soul en élargissant son audience, sous l’impulsion de producteurs rompus aux exigences d’un marché en perpétuelle demande de nouveautés, tels que Quincy Jones : Michael Jackson notamment, d...

• Rhythm-and-Blues Music I INTRODUCTION Tina Turner American singer Tina Turner began performing rhythm-and-blues music in a band led by her former husband, Ike Turner, in the 1960s.

  thousands of black Americans migrated from the rural South to Midwest, Northeast, and West Coast cities. In popular music, new styles were created to meet thechanging tastes of this demographic group, leading to the development of the urbane sounds of R&B. The profound sociological changes of the World War II period were accompanied by two significant technological developments: the invention of the electric guitar in thelate 1930s and the discovery of the German-invented tape recorder by the mu...