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Barry Gordy's Motown: The Assembly Line Approach to Music
Motown was founded by Barry Gordy in 1959 in Detroit./nGordy was inspired to create a music company after working at a automated car factory./nMotown was a black owned business that sold music by black artists to a wide audience./nGordy aimed to systematize music production through A-B testing and the use of a house band./nGordy was interested in automating the songwriting process and visited Raymond Scott's warehouse in the early 1970s.