Berry Gordy
Motown/Founders
As one after another of the independents have sold themselves to the conglomerates, and as each, to one degree or another, has lost touch with its original source of strength, only Motown continues to reflect the musical as well as business vision of its founder: namely, Berry Gordy, Jr.
Which city is known as Motown?
Motown, in full Motown Record Corporation, also called Hitsville, recording company founded by Berry Gordy, Jr., in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., in January 1959 that became one of the most successful Black-owned businesses and one of the most influential independent record companies in American history.
What does Tamla mean in Tamla Motown?
Realising that the way to make money was to produce his own records for his own label, in 1959 he founded Tamla Records (taking the name from the hit Debbie Reynolds film Tammy. Tamla would soon be joined by Motown – a cannibalisation of ‘Motor Town’, a nickname for Detroit).
How many Albanians are there in the world?
Approximately 5 million Albanians are geographically distributed across the Balkan Peninsula with about half this number living in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro as well as to a much smaller extent in Croatia and Serbia.
Why are Albanians in Kosovo called Muhaxher?
As the Serbs expelled many Albanians from the wider Toplica and Morava regions in Southern Serbia, which the 1878 Congress of Berlin had given to the Principality of Serbia, many of them settled in Kosovo. In Kosovo, they and their descendants are known as Muhaxher (meaning the exiled, from the Arabic muhajir).
Where did the Albanians settle in Europe?
Smaller populations such as the Arbanasi settled Southern Croatia and pockets of Southern Ukraine in the 18th century. The Shkumbin River roughly demarcates the Albanian language between Gheg and Tosk dialects. Christianity in Albania was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome until the 8th century AD.
What is the Albanian language called in Albania?
The Albanian language was referred to as Arbnisht and Arbërisht. While the exonym Albania for the general region inhabited by the Albanians does have connotations to Classical Antiquity, the Albanian language employs a different ethnonym, with modern Albanians referring to themselves as Shqip (ë)tarë and to their country as Shqipëria.
