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It's Soul Week!
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Soul music
is a popular
music genre
that originated in the
United States
in the 1950s and early 1960s, combining elements of
African American
gospel music
and
rhythm and blues
.
According to the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
, soul is "music that arose out of the
black experience in America
through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of
funky
,
secular
testifying."
[1]
Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a
call and response
between the soloist and the chorus, and an especially tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses
improvisational
additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds.
[2]
Soul music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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