Word: popping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reports are also trickling out of fighting in a dozen other provinces, including Yunnan, Szechwan, Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia. Some of the worst fighting has been in Canton, Kwang-tung's capital and the south's largest city (pop. 2,500,000), where several hundred have been killed in clashes centering on the downtown Pearl River bridge. The victims found in the Pearl last week were probably Cantonese...
...blues, the way was open for a whole cluster of ingredients to converge around an R & B core and form the potent, musical mix now known as soul?among them, in Critic Albert Goldman's words, "a racial ragbag of Delta blues, hillbilly strumming, gutbucket jazz, boogie-woogie piano, pop lyricism and storefront shouting...
Chitlin Circuit. It was not long before the soul sound began to move directly into the white market of pop music, and its purveyors started outstripping their white imitators. Charles was the first to reach a mass white public, starting as far back as 1955 with his hit record, I Got a Woman. In more recent years, a string of others have come along behind him. Lou Rawls, for example, is a former gospel trouper who spices his blues songs with reminiscences of his boyhood in Chicago's South Side slums. He used to work only in the Negro nightclub...
...this started happening, soul music was recorded mostly by small, independent companies and shipped straight to the South's black belt and the North's big-city ghettos. Now the upsurge of nationwide soul-oriented firms is so strong that it has jostled the balance of power in the pop record industry. Manhattan-based Atlantic, with such singers as Aretha, Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave, can now sell more records in a week (1,300,000) than it did in six months in 1950; now it ranks with the top singles producers in the business. Detroit's Motown Records, formed...
...onlv hurt the city he leads. With the Manila offices of the Japanese firms closed down, the municipality stands to lose well over $350,000 a year in taxes. Eight of the harassed Japanese firms have already taken up new offices in the fast-growing suburb of Makati (pop. 150,000), and most of the rest are expected to follow suit...