Soul Music
The Birth of a Sound in Black America
by Michael Haralambos
187 pages· 1985· ISBN 9780306802461
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This pioneering study documents the birth of soul music in America during the 1950s and '60s when, in response to the black community's new self-awareness and pride, musicians such as James Brown, The Impressions, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, Stevie Wonder, and others were discovering in the urban blues, gospel, and randb a new sound--soul--that expressed fresh musical and social ideals.
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