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  • Listen to Soul!: Exploring a Musical Genre

    Listen to Soul! by Perone, James E.;

    Exploring a Musical Genre

    Series: Exploring Musical Genres;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 24 July 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9798216219484
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages248 pages
    • Size 232x156x20 mm
    • Weight 340 g
    • Language English
    • 673

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    Short description:

    Focusing on 50 must-hear singers, songs, and albums that define soul music, Listen to Soul! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview for fans of the genre.

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    Listen to Soul! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of soul music for fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 must-hear singers, songs, and albums that define it.

    This book provides both an overview and a critical analysis of what makes soul music in the United States. A list of 50 songs, albums, and musicians includes many of the best-known hits of the past and present from artists such as Alicia Keys and Stevie Wonder, as well as several important popular successes that are not necessarily on the ""best-of"" lists in other books.

    Like the other books in this series, this volume includes a chapter that focuses on the background of soul music followed by 50 critical essays on must-hear albums, songs, and singers. Chapters on the impact of soul music on popular culture and the legacy of the genre further explain the impact of these seminal compositions and musicians. This volume additionally includes a greater focus on soul music as a genre, making it a stand-out title on the topic for high school and college readers.

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    Table of Contents:

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    Series Foreword
    Preface
    Acknowledgments

    1. Background
    2. Must-Hear Music
    ""Ain't No Mountain High Enough"": From Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell to Diana Ross
    Beyoncï¿1⁄2
    Blue-Eyed Soul: The Men
    Blue-Eyed Soul: The Women
    Boyz II Men
    James Brown: Live at the Apollo
    James Brown: Two Mid-60s Hits: ""I Got You (I Feel Good)"" and ""Papa's Got a Brand New Bag""
    Mariah Carey
    Ray Charles: ""I Got a Woman""
    Ray Charles: ""What'd I Say""
    The Commodores and Lionel Richie
    Sam Cooke: Ain't That Good News
    D'Angelo: Brown Sugar
    The Drifters
    Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
    Aretha Franklin: ""Think""
    Marvin Gaye: Let's Get It On
    Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
    Al Green: Greatest Hits
    Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul
    Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
    Whitney Houston
    The Impressions: ""People Get Ready""
    The Isley Brothers: The Heat Is On
    Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5
    Etta James
    Alicia Keys
    Ben E. King: ""Stand by Me""
    Gladys Knight and the Pips
    John Legend
    Curtis Mayfield: Super Fly
    Wilson Pickett: Land of 1000 Dances: The Complete Atlantic Singles, Vol. 1
    Elvis Presley
    Otis Redding: Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
    ""Respect"": From Otis Redding to Aretha Franklin
    Minnie Riperton: Perfect Angel
    Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
    Sam & Dave
    Nina Simone: Feeling Good: The Very Best of Nina Simone
    Percy Sledge: ""When a Man Loves a Woman""
    Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memphis
    The Staple Singers: Be Altitude: Respect Yourself
    The Supremes
    The Temptations
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Jackie Wilson
    Bill Withers
    Stevie Wonder in the 1960s
    Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life
    ""(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman"": Aretha Franklin and Carole King
    3. Impact on Popular Culture
    4. Legacy

    Bibliography
    Index

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