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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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The main point of the passage isn’t to explain what independent record companies must do in order to compete with major companies. The main point of this passage is about Motown’s success; (A) doesn’t even mention Motown.

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We do know that Gordy focused on the technical quality of Motown’s recordings, but the passage doesn’t say that the high quality of the recordings was a result of the Detroit public schools’ music-education program. Additionally, the main point of the passage is about Motown’s success more generally, not about the quality of the records specifically.

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The passage doesn’t mention local financing, so this can’t be the main point.

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The passage doesn’t suggest that Gordy has been denied credit for his role in the 1960s music revolution, or that credit is overdue, so this can’t be the main point.

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This is the main point. (E) captures the author’s point that Motown Records was very successful, and it captures the variety of factors that led to the company’s success (Gordy’s entrepreneurial skills and the artistic environment of 1960s Detroit).

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PrepTest 157 - Section 4 - Passage 1 - Question 1

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