Genres of Soul Music
Soul Music
Soul music is a combination of rhythm and blues and
gospel which began in the late 1950s in the United States. Rhythm and
blues (a term coined by music writer and record producer Jerry Wexler)
is itself a combination of blues and jazz, and arose in the 1940s as
small groups, often utilizing saxophones, built upon the blues
tradition.
A Timeline of phillysoul
A selective and highly subjective chronicle of notable events in the city?s R&B and hip-hop history.
A selective and highly subjective chronicle of notable events in the city?s R&B and hip-hop history.A selective and highly subjective chronicle of notable events in the city?s R&B and hip-hop history.
Neo Soul
Neo soul (also known as nu soul) is a
musical genre that fuses R&B, 1970s style soul, and hip hop. It is
the third major genre of R&B/soul music to blend in hip-hop
elements, after the new jack swing of the late 1980s/ early 1990s and
the hip-hop soul of the early to mid 1990s.
Blue Eyed Soul
Blue-eyed soul is
soul music as performed by white people and usually intended for white
audiences. It exists in contrast to soul music performed by blacks,
although many performers in the genre, such as The Box Tops, Eddie
Hinton and Dan Penn, recorded many of the same songs done by black soul
artists.
Motown Sound
The Motown Sound is a style of soul
music with distinctive characteristics, including the use of tambourine
along with drums, bass instrumentation, a distinctive melodical and
chord structure, and a "call and response" singing style originating in
gospel music.
Memphis Soul
Memphis soul is stylish, funky, uptown
soul music that is not as hard edged as Southern soul. It is a
shimmering, sultry style produced in the 1960s and 1970s at Stax and Hi
Records in Memphis, Tennessee, featuring tasteful, melancholic, melodic
horns, organ, bass, and drums.
Philadelphia Soul
Philadelphia (or Philly) soul,
sometimes called the Philadelphia Sound, is a style of soul music
characterized by lush instrumental arrangements often featuring
sweeping strings and horns. The result is a much smoother sound
compared to the more funky and gritty Southern and deep soul styles.
Psychedelic soul
Psychedelic soul is a subgenre of soul
music that thrived during the late 1960s and early 1970s. A blending of
psychedelic rock and soul music, the style is best exemplified in the
work of multicultural rock band Sly & the Family Stone.
Quiet storm
Quiet storm is a late-night radio
format, featuring soulful slow jams, pioneered in the mid 1970s by then
station intern Melvin Lindsey at Howard University Radio, WHUR-FM, in
Washington, D.C. Smokey Robinson's like-titled hit single, released in
1975 as the title track to his third solo album, lent its name to the
format and to the radio program that introduced it to the public, as
well.
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