Publisher's Note SOUL shows how this exciting combination of the feverish intensity of gospel and the driving rhythms of R&B led to the development of postwar America's most electrifying music. Featured artists include: Aretha Franklin; James Brown; Al Green; Otis Redding Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
This series of book and compact disc packages offers informative and enjoyable histories of many diverse genres of music in a beautifully compact format. Readers will be able to listen to some of the greatest songs ever recorded as they read about the musicians who made them. Each packages includes: Soul has roots in the nineteenth-century jubilee and early country blues, and thus straddles the fence between the secular and the sacred. Through the determination of such soul legends as Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding, this powerful music. with its "sacrilegious" combination of the feverish intensity of gospel and the driving rhythms of R&B, became one of the most important musical expressions in twentieth-century music.