My name is Dylan Morris. I am a seventeen year old high school student from Cambridge, Massachussetts. I spent six weeks during the summer of 2005 at the Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP), a program for rising high school seniors. TASP students take a seminar course at one of four universities. My TASP seminar was at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Our course was entitled "Music of the Everyday: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Popular Music in the United States, 1880-Present." Professors Mark Clague and Derek Vaillant taught our 18-student seminar. As part of the seminar, each student undertook an extensive research project focused on some aspect of the history of music in the Ann Arbor/Detroit area. Intrigued by the seeming abscence of the Motown Sound from Ann Arbor, a city very near Motown's original home of Detroit, I set out to discover "what happened to Motown." In the process, I examined the a collection personal and professional papers donated to the University's Bentley Historical Library by Al Abrams, a former Motown press agent and public relations consultant. I became interested in the public relations end of Motown's success—how did Motown market itself. I chose to focus on this aspect of Motown's rise and fall within the Detroit area. I decided to attempt to contact and interview Mr. Abrams. With the help of Karen Jania, the research librarian at the Bentley Library, to whom I am very grateful, to established email contact with Mr. Abrams, and eventually interviewed him by phone. This interview provided the factual basis for much of this site and helped me to get an idea of what I wanted to claim about Motown marketing. I am extremely grateful to Mr. Abrams for all his help—he has been an invaluable source, as well as a patient and proactively helpful supporter of mine in conducting this project. This site is my attempt to summarize the factual scope of my research, as well as to provide a sense of what, to my mind, "happened" to Motown—in Detroit and nation-wide.