Funk

It is interesting to note that the three mainstream styles of African American popular music in the early and mid-1960s, Motown, Stax, and Chicago soul , were all in their own individual ways products of the central social/political facts of integration and the Civil Rights Movement. The story of Motown and Barry Gordy Jr., for example, was predicated on the rise of large-scale black capitalism partially inspired and made possible by the momentous changes of the times; whereas Stax and...