PrepTest 157 - Section 4 - Passage 1 - Question 7

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In 1959, Hitsville, USA—the company better known as Motown Records—was founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy, Jr. ███████ ███████ ███████████ ██ ████████ ███████ ████████ ███ ██ ███ ████ ██████████ ██████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████ ███████ ███████ ███████████████ ██████ ███ ███ ██████ ██ ████████ ████████████ ██████ █ █████ ████ ██ ████████ ████████ ██ ███ ███ ████████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ██████ ████████████ ██ ███ ████ ███████ ██████ ██ █████████ ███████ ████████ ██████████ ██████ █████ ███████ ████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ █████████

Main point · Motown was successful for various reasons

Reasons include Gordy's entrepreneurial skills, his belief in economic independence, and the artistic situation in Detroit.

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Support 1 · Gordy's entrepreneurial decisions helped Motown be successful

Industry convention was having established stars remake songs for limited markets. Gordy rejected this and had Motown artists appeal to everyone. Gordy also wanted the highest technical quality in Motown recordings.

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Support 2 · Public music education in Detroit

Detroit had many talented artists and technicians due to its public school music-education program. Almost every Motown session musician, arranger, and producer came from this program. Major Motown music groups met and rehearsed in their high schools.

Support 3 · Growing popularity of electric instruments

Motown used electric instruments, which broadened Motown's sound and audience.

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This Purpose in Context question asks for the author’s purpose in discussing E. Azalia Hackley. The author discusses Hackley in P3, where the author describes her influence in developing Detroit’s public school music-education program.

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This is the author’s purpose in discussing Hackley. In P3, we see that Detroit’s public school music-education program dated back to the turn of the century, when Hackley dedicated herself to the musical education of African American youth. By the time Motown was founded, because of Hackley, Detroit had a long-standing tradition of musical education, which contributed to Motown’s success.

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The passage does not specify the type of musical education that was provided in Detroit’s public schools, so this can’t be the author’s purpose in mentioning Hackley.

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We don’t know that the Motown performers were directly influenced by Hackley. The passage says that many Motown performers came out of Detroit’s public school music-education program, but the passage doesn’t indicate that these performers were directly influenced by Hackley, so this can’t be the author’s purpose in mentioning Hackley.

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The passage doesn’t discuss how Detroit’s music instruction in public schools has changed over the years, so this can’t be the author’s purpose in mentioning Hackley.

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The author’s purpose in discussing Hackley was to show that she started the program that led to the abundance of talented musiicans in Detroit; the author’s purpose here was not to claim that music education in Detroit would have declined without supporters like Hackley.

PrepTest 157 - Section 4 - Passage 1 - Question 7

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