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When the Supremes first popularized "I Hear a Symphony" in 1965, it may have been odd to hear three black girls from Detroit's Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects singing about one of the most important cultural institutions in the history of Western music. At the time, the symphony orchestra represented the unquestioned pinnacle of musical sophistication. Today our valuation is much different. We no longer assume that the orchestra rests on a higher cultural plane, and various forms of popular music are now widely considered potential conduits for musical ambitious and erudition. Motown had a prescient role in this shift, helping to change the place of black-owned businesses within the entertainment field and working to achieve a larger international reception of black pop as an art form with important cultural and musical content. There is no question. The Supremes were hearing a revolution and now, more than half a century later, we all hear the same symphony.