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Claude Lemaire
Claude Lemaire has a college degree in electronics and has given various lectures on music and audio. Along with some professional DJ’ing, Claude has had a hand in live show recording, mastering, loudspeaker and turntable design, as well as hosted his own weekly disco FM radio show. The proud owner of a ten-thousand plus vinyl record collection, in 2010, Claude launched his music blog Soundevaluations. He has written for EnjoyTheMusic.com, and currently writes for Positive Feedback and Mono and Stereo. You can follow his music articles by visiting https://soundevaluations.blogspot.ca/ .
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From jump blues and Ray Charles’s boundary-breaking “What’d I Say” to the polished hits of Motown and gritty grooves of Stax, this sweeping history traces soul music’s rise—and disco’s roots—in a racially and musically transformative America.
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Tracing disco’s roots back to slave songs, chain gangs, and swing countercultures, the article shows how rhythm evolved into a movement — one made possible not by concerts, but by records and multitrack recording.