The Universal Motown Records Group is a division of the Universal Music Group, a collection of several record labels: Universal Music Group (UMG), formerly MCA Music Entertainment Group, is the largest business group and family of record labels in the record industry. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ...
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Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as the first record label owned by an African-American and primarily featuring African-American artists to regularly achieve crossover success and have a widespread, lasting effect on the music industry.
Motown artists were advised that their breakthrough into the white popular music market made them ambassadors for other African-American artists seeking broad market acceptance, and that they should think, act, walk and talk like royalty, so as to alter the less-than-dignified image (commonly held by white Americans in that era) of fl musicians.
Motown was merged with UniversalRecords to create the UniversalMotownRecordsGroup, an umbrella division of Universal Music which oversees the releases and catalogs for Motown, Universal, Blackground, Republic, Cash Money, Casablanca, and other labels.
UniversalMotownRecordsGroup is being reorganized as two discrete, nongenre-specific labels, UniversalMotownRecords and Universal Republic Records, with Sylvia Rhone and Monte Lipman serving as their respective presidents.
Lipman was president of UniversalRecords, while Rhone was president of MotownRecords and executive VP of UniversalRecords.
While UniversalMotown and Universal Republic will share certain back-office finance and legal functions, the labels will otherwise be stand-alone operations and are expected to expand their staffs in the immediate future.
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