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Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music: With Colin Salmon, James Brown, Etta James, Jerry Butler. Soul music has conquered the world in the last 50 years - growing from the raw, electric rhythms of the black underclass, it is now a billion dollar industry with R&B and hip-hop dominating the world's charts.
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An in-depth guide to the 6 part BBC TWO series on the history of black popular music, featuring profiles, galleries, competitions, playlists and interview clips.
Jun 4, 2005 · His defiant, energy-driven groove, known as funk, burst onto the soundwaves against a background of civil unrest, and quickly became synonymous with African-American identity in troubled times. Colin Salmon narrates. BBC4 Session: James Brown follows at 10.25pm on BBC4.
The Motown sound and its incredible flood of 1960s hits unquestionably changed the landscape of pop. With the Supremes, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, the label rewrote the cultural rule book and created THE sound of young America.
In the process he became soul music's first superstar. This episode follows Sam Cooke's career as he made the transition from gospel to pop, and profiles some of the artists who followed him: The Staple Singers, Ben E King, Solomon Burke and Johnnie Taylor.
About this Item. Title. SOUL DEEP THE STORY OF BLACK POPULAR MUSIC. Names. 1. Deep Sehgal 2. Kate Broome 3. Francis Whately 4. Anna Gravelle 5. Alastair Laurence 6. Sebastian Barfield (director) Created / Published. UK. Notes. - Information from: "Jazz on the Screen" by David Meeker. Used with permission. (Source) - Made-for-TV series.
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The BBC documentary Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music provides a highly informative review of the evolution of the black music in a period of more than half century.
