Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the Soul...
DIONNE WARWICK: VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Scepter). To some ears, Dionne is too "bleached," or white-sounding, to be a soul singer; but the best of her exceptional ways with a note are strictly soul-derived. Though Do You Know the Way to San Jose? is a sleekly "white", and delightful, song, others, such as Let Me Be Lonely, pay their dues to rhythm & blues. Both songs, along with several others on the album, were written by Burt Bacharach, one of the more able and sophisticated composers in the business...
...finally people have learned to understand the Negro's music [June 28] why the hell can't they understand the man or woman who's singing it? Soul music is not something that just came on the scene, it has been here since the black man came to America; it started way back in those cotton fields in Mississippi, Georgia, etc. That was all we had, when we were out in the hot sun picking cotton; finally a nice cool breeze came and you just had to let someone know that you had the feeling...
...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...
...Soul is acting and being yourself- doing your thing, naturally. Like, I eat chitlins, yams, greens and corn bread because I dig them, not because I am black or have any false illusions that these "soul foods" will make me soulful. Soul is being, not trying...