“This was a story I felt had been told about other cities, when I was a teenager I would read about the way Peter Guralnick would write about soul music from the south. More recently, there have been books about soul music in Detroit and how Motown was part and parcel of the political changes that were going on in Detroit. So, I really felt that story needed to be told from a Chicago perspective.” - Aaron Cohen talking about the impetus to write MOVE ON UP.