Soul Music
Soul music has its roots in gospel music and rhythm and blues.
The term soul in black American parlance has connotations
of black pride and culture.
Gospel groups in the 1940s and
1950s occasionally used the term as part of their name.
The...
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Soul Music
Soul music has its roots in gospel music and rhythm and blues.
The term soul in black American parlance has connotations
of black pride and culture.
Gospel groups in the 1940s and
1950s occasionally used the term as part of their name.
The
jazz that self-consciously derived from gospel came to be
called soul jazz.
As singers and arrangers began using
techniques from gospel and soul jazz in black popular music
during the 1960s, soul music gradually functioned as an
umbrella term for the black popular music at the time.
The
term "soul music" itself, to describe gospel-style music with
secular lyrics, is first attested in 1961.
Soul is "music that
arose out of the black experience in America through the
transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of
funky, secular testifying.
Catchy rhythms, stressed by
handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important
feature of soul music.
I think soul music is great music.
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