Post by HitsvilleSoul on Feb 8, 2006 17:23:56 GMT -5
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MAA
University of Michigan Music Symposium in Ann Arbor February 11 to Highlight Motown Records Founding Publicist Alan Abrams. The University of Michigan's Music of the Americas Study Group 2006 Symposium, "Ear Candy: the Pleasures and Politics of Pop," will be presented Sat. Feb. 11 at the university's Haven Hall in Ann Arbor.
Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) February 7, 2006 -- The University of Michigan's Music of the Americas Study Group 2006 Symposium, "Ear Candy: the Pleasures and Politics of Pop," will be presented Sat. Feb. 11 at the university's Haven Hall in Ann Arbor.
Journalist and author Alan Abrams, the founding publicist of Motown Records, will speak at the event's second session on "Marketing Motown: Tales from the Trenches of a Revolution." At the age of 18, Abrams became the first employee of what was to become Berry Gordy, Jr's music empire. Abrams began as the national record promotion man for the Detroit labels in 1959 and eventually became Motown's Press Relations Director.
The University of Michigan has posted a site, "Selling the Motor City Its Sound," which highlights a lengthy interview with Abrams. The interview is part of the University of Michigan’s School of Music “Living Music” series in cooperation with the American Music Institute, and details Abrams’ experiences in marketing Motown to the media and the masses. The link to the site can be found at: www.umich.edu/~aamuhist/dmorrisz/motown/index.html
Author of 11 published books -- none self-published -- including the highly acclaimed and pioneering Holocaust study, "Special Treatment: The Untold Story of the Survival of Thousands of Jews in Hitler‘s Third Reich," Abrams is currently writing his story of the early days of Motown with an emphasis on the marketing of the Detroit Sound. Abrams’ Motown and Stax-Volt archives are held in the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library.
The program for the event follows. Admission is free and open to the public.
EAR CANDY: the Pleasures and Politics of Pop
Saturday, February 11
10 AM – 4 PM
Haven Hall 3512
SCHEDULE
Coffee begins at 9:00 am
Session I:
9:30 am (Mark Clague, moderator) Shirli Gilbert, "South African Popular
Music and the International Anti-Apartheid Struggle"
Lori Brooks, "'Sousa Played in Ragtime': Paul Laurence Dunbar and the
Emergence of A Ragtime Sensibility".
Christi-Anne Castro, "Universal Sound and Embodied Difference: Asian
Americans Making Pop Music”
Session II
11:30 am –12:15 pm (Mark Clague, intro)
Alan Abrams (former publicity agent for Motown Records)
“Marketing Motown: Tales from the Trenches of a Revolution”
Lunch at Cottage Inn
12:30 pm (Paul Anderson, moderator)
Keynote Talk: Charles Kronengold (Wayne State University) “The Pop
Song's ‘More’ and Melancholy Democracy
Session III
2:30 pm (Charles Garrett, moderator)
Walter Everett, "Painting Their Room in a Colorful Way: The Beatles'
Exploration of Timbre.
Todd Decker, Fred Astaire’s “Bugle Call Rag”
Paul Anderson, “Willow Weep for Me”: The Jazz Ballad, with and without Romance
Closing Discussion
End ca. 4:30 pm
Book Table provided by University of Michigan Press
MAA
University of Michigan Music Symposium in Ann Arbor February 11 to Highlight Motown Records Founding Publicist Alan Abrams. The University of Michigan's Music of the Americas Study Group 2006 Symposium, "Ear Candy: the Pleasures and Politics of Pop," will be presented Sat. Feb. 11 at the university's Haven Hall in Ann Arbor.
Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) February 7, 2006 -- The University of Michigan's Music of the Americas Study Group 2006 Symposium, "Ear Candy: the Pleasures and Politics of Pop," will be presented Sat. Feb. 11 at the university's Haven Hall in Ann Arbor.
Journalist and author Alan Abrams, the founding publicist of Motown Records, will speak at the event's second session on "Marketing Motown: Tales from the Trenches of a Revolution." At the age of 18, Abrams became the first employee of what was to become Berry Gordy, Jr's music empire. Abrams began as the national record promotion man for the Detroit labels in 1959 and eventually became Motown's Press Relations Director.
The University of Michigan has posted a site, "Selling the Motor City Its Sound," which highlights a lengthy interview with Abrams. The interview is part of the University of Michigan’s School of Music “Living Music” series in cooperation with the American Music Institute, and details Abrams’ experiences in marketing Motown to the media and the masses. The link to the site can be found at: www.umich.edu/~aamuhist/dmorrisz/motown/index.html
Author of 11 published books -- none self-published -- including the highly acclaimed and pioneering Holocaust study, "Special Treatment: The Untold Story of the Survival of Thousands of Jews in Hitler‘s Third Reich," Abrams is currently writing his story of the early days of Motown with an emphasis on the marketing of the Detroit Sound. Abrams’ Motown and Stax-Volt archives are held in the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library.
The program for the event follows. Admission is free and open to the public.
EAR CANDY: the Pleasures and Politics of Pop
Saturday, February 11
10 AM – 4 PM
Haven Hall 3512
SCHEDULE
Coffee begins at 9:00 am
Session I:
9:30 am (Mark Clague, moderator) Shirli Gilbert, "South African Popular
Music and the International Anti-Apartheid Struggle"
Lori Brooks, "'Sousa Played in Ragtime': Paul Laurence Dunbar and the
Emergence of A Ragtime Sensibility".
Christi-Anne Castro, "Universal Sound and Embodied Difference: Asian
Americans Making Pop Music”
Session II
11:30 am –12:15 pm (Mark Clague, intro)
Alan Abrams (former publicity agent for Motown Records)
“Marketing Motown: Tales from the Trenches of a Revolution”
Lunch at Cottage Inn
12:30 pm (Paul Anderson, moderator)
Keynote Talk: Charles Kronengold (Wayne State University) “The Pop
Song's ‘More’ and Melancholy Democracy
Session III
2:30 pm (Charles Garrett, moderator)
Walter Everett, "Painting Their Room in a Colorful Way: The Beatles'
Exploration of Timbre.
Todd Decker, Fred Astaire’s “Bugle Call Rag”
Paul Anderson, “Willow Weep for Me”: The Jazz Ballad, with and without Romance
Closing Discussion
End ca. 4:30 pm
Book Table provided by University of Michigan Press
....But I take my hat off to him for helping to build such an empire :thankyou: