A brief history of Soul
Soul music is a combination of R&B and gospel and began in the late 1950s in the United States. Soul diffirentiates from R&B due to Soul music's use of gospel-music devices, its greater emphasis on vocalists and its religious and secular themes.
Soul music has 4 different sources: racial, geographical, historical and economical. The 1950s recordings of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and James Brown are considered the beginnings of soul music.
There are many different types of Soul music, including: Southern Soul, Neo-Soul and Psychedelic Soul. The birthplace of soul music is an ambiguous topic. It is a commonplace that cities like Chicago, Detroit, and New York City should be considered the birthplace of soul because their citizens were the key audience of many songs.
More than any other genre of African-American music, Soul is the result of the combination of previous styles in the 50s and 60s. Broadly speaking, soul comes from gospel (the sacred) and blues (the profane). Blues praised the fleshly desire while gospel was more oriented toward spiritual inspiration.
Once it gained popularity, Soul gradually came into white musical groups and was then called "Blue-Eyed Soul." Soul music ruled the black musical charts throughout the 60s and inspired many other music styles such as pop music and funk. In fact it never disapeared, it simply evolved.
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