1960's Motown

Racial attitudes were not as much of an issue any more in the early 1960’s and this gave way to a whole new genre in music. Black musicians were now allowed to have unlimited radio play and could express their music to the world freely.
The main people that are behind Motown are a group called ‘The Funk Brothers’. These were a pool of session musicians from around the city of Detroit that played jazz and blues. It was always the singers that they played for that got noticed and became famous. They played for artists like Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, James Brown and Stevie Wonder and many, many more.
It was also a time when producing and writing music was very different to how it is done today. The Funk Brothers used a basement as their studio and only had three hour sessions at a time in which they often wrote and recorded around two to four songs each time which is amazing to how it can take a full day in a studio now to get two tracks done. Motown was very often just like a big jam session when they were writing their music, someone started off with a rhythm or beat and then the other musicians join adding their own little bits to it.
I choose to write my 1960’s blog on Motown because I thought that it would be interesting to write about it with having the racial background with it being around the time when racial attitudes were becoming much more relaxed. Also because I liked the idea of having a lot of musicians on stage all having small parts but creating some incredible and very influential music and it was a genre that I wanted to learn more about.