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Hear a mix of songs made by Motown's most successful post-Detroit star — an authentic live wire and an ultrasavvy professional who's misremembered and underappreciated.
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Hear a mix of songs made by Motown's most successful post-Detroit star — an authentic live wire and an ultrasavvy professional who's misremembered and underappreciated.
Left of Black S5:E12: Curating the Soul Music Archives
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Harry Weinger (@harryweinger), Vice President of A&R for Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) and lecturer at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University.
A two-time Grammy Award winner for his work on the ground-breaking James Brown box-set Star Time (1991) and the film and soundtrack Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002), Weinger and Neal discuss his access to the vaults of Soul music, maintaining and curating the musical legacies of the Motown label and James Brown, teaching courses at NYU on Stevie Wonder and Prince, and co-teaching a class on “Great Albums” with Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson. Weinger also discusses his dream project which involves a decade’s long project by Marvin Gaye to record a series of Big Band ballads arranged by Bobby Scott.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University and in conjunction with the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE).
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Sampling Motown
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Info: Harry Weinger, vice president of A&R for Universal Music Enterprises and a 30-year veteran of the entertainment industry, is the guest speaker at next weeks Sampling Motown class at Duke University. Learn more at: http://nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions_re...
Questlove and Harry Weinger on the "Science" of "What's Going On"
Musician Questlove and Harry Weinger from Universal Music discuss some of the inspiration that comes from listening to Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On."
Who better than Questlove and Grammy-winning producer Harry Weinger to teach a class on what makes an album classic? Love this music culture intellectualism, yo.
--RB
Harry Weinger from Universal Music sits with Musician Questlove as they dive into the original multitracks of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On."
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