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The history of soul music
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Soul music is the creation of altering social conditions and diverse musical influences. Tracing its roots into the traditional folk songs of the African slaves that were brought at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, soul music was originally the African Spirituals' of the period between 1825 and 1850. These spirituals had significant harmonious and metrical relationships with West African songs and were often used by black slaves as a means of ...
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23 hours ago ago from SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
CD REVIEW Tommy T: The Prester John Sessions (Easy Star Records) You'd never guess from the music that this album comes from the mind of the man who creates the driving bass lines for gypsy punkers Gogol Bordello . Perhaps, instead, from a friend of Bill Laswell's who has spent time in both Jamaica and Ethiopia. Just as Mulatu Astatke 's recent retrospective gives us the roots of Ethio-jazz, Tommy T digs into his Ethiopian roots (he ...
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Yesterday, my friend Rachel Swirsky introduced me to an excellent musician named Gabriel Kahane . I am a big fan of singer-songwriter-composer-types who work within a new music or contemporary composition or art song framework, and/or who are heavily influenced by new music, etc, but also by pop and rock. Kahane is this sort of artist. Rachel also compared him to some of her favorite ...
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My fried Tyler Brooks and I have had a blog for what could possibly be a year now? I'm not entirely sure. But we started it primarily because we know that we loved each others taste in music and practically everything that we went our different ways for college, we would need to still have someway to keep each other up to date on what's going on around us. So our blog is called The Diff'rence , it's a space for art, fashion, music and to ...
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