About this deck
Rhythm and blues (R&B) is the umbrella term for African-American popular music since the late 1940s. Soul, its mid-1960s flowering, is gospel transposed into secular subject matter, with the deeper vocal commitment and harmonic complexity gospel allowed. Key sections include: R &B Soul.; Opening What R&B and soul are.; Chapter I Naming the music.; Chapter II From gospel to soul.; Chapter III The genius.; Chapter IV Berry Gordy's machine.; Chapter V The Memphis alternative.; Chapter VI Ahmet Ertegun's empire.; Chapter VII The Stax voice.; Chapter VIII The Queen of Soul..
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