Word: aretha
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LATER, the author reminds us of the liberation of American music which occurred around 1954. Elvis Presley started moving his hips, white song writers raided black lyrics to send toned-down versions across the country. Chubby Checker taught the rich how to twist. Today Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin have brought the feeling of soul to white bodies from Boston to Seattle...
SINGER PRESENTS THE SOUNDS OF '68 (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Ed Ames hosts a pop-music special featuring nine finalists of a summer-long talent hunt. Soul Singer Aretha Franklin is guest star...
...Your attempted analysis of "soul," as expressed by the beautiful and sensitive Aretha Franklin, does little more than perpetuate America's racist dogma that anything indigenous to blacks must be imbued with bestial sexuality, an oblique relationship with God and/or family or, at best, quaint abnormalities of conduct. Your perception of soul is as your perception of those who live it. You see plainly the origins, but not feeling its message, you subject it to comical distortions or paternal niceties. As is evident in many crumbling households, the would-be Great White Father is well advised to "just...
...those Negroes who would leave it to us whites to "defend the idea of 'blue-eyed soul,' " I would like to point out that the "funky Memphis rhythm section" that became the vehicle which made it possible for Aretha to dp her thing is composed of all white musicians...
...stated that "she leans her head back, forehead gleaming with perspiration." Aretha does not perspire, she sweats. Sweat has soul. Perspire is a word invented by blue-veined little ladies who spoke of limbs instead of arms and legs, boy cows instead of bulls...