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  1. www.britannica.com › dictionary › soul-musicSoul music Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary

    SOUL MUSIC meaning: a popular style of music expressing deep emotion that was created by African-Americans

  2. www.jstor.org › stable › jThe Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s...

    In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a newunderstanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordiargues, soul came to signify a cultural ...

  3. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishSOUL MUSIC | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    SOUL MUSIC definition: 1. popular music that expresses deep feelings, originally performed by Black Americans: 2. popular…. Learn more.

  4. timeline.carnegiehall.org › genres › soulHistory of Soul Music — Timeline of African American Music

    The soul sound encompasses many different vocal styles and timbres. It ranged from the more lyrical and tempered style of Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, and Al Green, to the gospel-folk style of the Staple Singers to the percussive and shouting approach of James Brown, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and Sam and Dave.

  5. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › soulSoul Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    soul: [noun] the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life.

  6. www.dictionary.com › browse › soul-musicSOUL MUSIC Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    Soul music definition: a fervent type of popular music developed in the late 1950s by Black Americans as a secularized form of gospel music, with rhythm-and-blues influences, and distinctive for its earthy expressiveness, variously plaintive or raucous vocals, and often passionate romanticism or sensuality..

  7. www.dukeupress.edu › the-meaning-of-soulDuke University Press - The Meaning of Soul

    In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept.In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices—inventive cover versions, falsetto vocals, ad-libs, and false endings.