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“I feel good, I knew that I would, now…So good, so good, I got you!” You’ll be repeating the “Godfather of Soul,” James Brown’s famous lyrics when you download some groovy soul ringtones for your mobile phone. Soul music is closely linked to rhythm and blues music, which grew from the musical customs of African-American gospel music and blues traditions in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s in the United States. Soul was the product of the urbanization and commercialization of rhythm and blues music. As a sub-genre, soul music can be differentiated from more traditional rhythm and blues by its emphasis on the vocalists, its amalgamation of both secular and religious themes within the music and its incorporation of gospel music devices. The term “soul music” is used to describe a plethora of rhythm and blues-based music styles and there is a vast assortment of variety within the genre. In later half of the 1960’s, soul musicians began to push the style in different courses. Different parts of the United States came to produce different kinds of soul music, each with their own signature sound marking. Large urban hubs such as New York, Chicago and Philadelphia produced music that contained a lot of vocal interchange and slick production. In Detroit, Michigan, Motown was producing a sound that leaned towards pop music and was equal parts rock & roll, r&b and gospel sounds. In the southern states, the soul that was being created started to sound tougher and harder than its northern cousins. Southern soul relied on syncopated rhythms, shattering horns, and unprocessed vocals. Soul music topped the black music charts throughout the 1960’s and often crossed over into the pop charts as well.
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