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      • Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music.
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  2. Sep 19, 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.

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Soul_musicSoul music - Wikipedia

    Soul music has its roots in traditional African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues and as the hybridization of their respective religious and secular styles – in both lyrical content and instrumentation – that began in the 1950s.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Soul_bluesSoul blues - Wikipedia

    Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music. [1]

  5. Soul music is a genre that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s, blending elements of rhythm and blues (R&B), gospel, and jazz. It is characterized by its emotive vocal style, strong backbeats, and a focus on personal and social themes, making it a powerful medium for expressing the African American experience during a time of significant ...

  6. Feb 25, 2018 · Soul music is a combination of R&B (Rhythm and Blues) and gospel music and began in the late 1950s in the United States. While Soul has a lot in common with R&B, its differences include its use of gospel-music devices, its greater emphasis on vocalists, and its merging of religious and secular themes.

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  7. Soul music, term adopted to describe African American popular music in the United States as it evolved from the 1950s to the ’60s and ’70s. Some view soul as merely a new term for rhythm and blues.

  8. Mar 11, 2023 · Soul is a collective term for several types of pop music pioneered by Black American artists from the middle of the twentieth century onwards. Genres grouped under the soul genre include gospel music, smooth jazz, R&B (rhythm and blues), Motown, and urban blues.

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