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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues.
17. Mai 2024 · If rock and roll, represented by performers such as Elvis Presley, can be seen as a white reading of rhythm and blues, soul is a return to African American music’s roots—gospel and blues. The style is marked by searing vocal intensity, use of church-rooted call-and-response, and extravagant melisma.
- David Ritz
With its roots in gospel music and the broader Black church culture, soul music captured the spirit, emotions, and chaos of the 1960s civil unrest that continued into the early 1970s. The soul sound began to take shape during the 1950s, the beginning of the modern Civil Rights movement.
7. Juni 2021 · Various genres of popular Black-pioneered music—gospel, blues, R&B, and forms of jazz—are often grouped together in a category known as soul music.
25. Feb. 2018 · Soul music has had a profound impact on artists and genres starting in the 1950's. Learn about the origins, styles, and artists that make Soul great.
- Mark Edward Nero
Soul music evolved from African – American gospel and rhythm and blues, blending emotional vocals with powerful instrumentation to reflect the struggles and triumphs of the African American experience during civil unrest in the 1960s.
Soul music emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s as one of the most distinctive forms in the history of American popular music. For black Americans especially, soul music defined the 1960s, offering a cultural soundtrack to the civil rights movement and the larger awakening of black consciousness and pride.
