June 10, 2005
Indiana U. Course Explores the Significance of Motown
Music is played regularly. Everyone learns a dance or two. And a sock hop, complete with soul food, tops off the six-week summer course. But this class isn't about parties. It's about Motown and the related social and cultural life in Detroit from 1959 to 1972.
"I think the course is a lot of fun," says Charles E. Sykes, an adjunct professor of folklore and ethnomusicology, who teaches "Motown" at Indiana University at Bloomington. "But underneath it all is a lot of thought in trying
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