Soul music

For the comic book, see Discworld#Soul Music (1994).

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of 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."

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• But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.[1]
  • Ray Charles on the Pop Chronicles: the Soul Reformation, interview recorded 3.8.1968.

• Soul is truth, ... no matter where it comes from, no matter how it is presented.
  • Lou Rawls, Pop Chronicles, Show 52 - The Soul Reformation: Phase three, soul music at the summit. [Part 8], interview recorded 10.12.1967.