There was this show on lastnight about soul music. Bunch of poms strutting around in pastel colours and getting naked at beach raves listening to soul. Was amusing :-)
|-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 17 June 2003 23:58 |To: David Powers |Cc: 313@hyperreal.org; spw |Subject: RE: (313) Soul Music (was some nonsense spw was going |on about) | | | |>On the other hand, "Soul Music" as a genre was a just a euphimism for |"black music", and doesn't have anything >to do with "soul" as |a spiritual or metaphysical concept. | |The hell it doesn't have a spiritual concept! Where the hell |do you think Soul music came from? | |Listen to Ray Charles man, and then tell me that there isn't a |spiritual side to Soul music - one of the biggest influences |on Soul music was the church. All those singers - All Green, |Mavis Staple, Aretha Franklin, and so many more got their |start in the church. That's not to say that Soul = Gospel but |there in a huge influence of Gospel on Soul. Soul music is the |merging of the spiritual with the physical - that's why it's |so great to dance to... it satisfies the body, mind and |"soul". (That's why I love the term "High Tech Soul" = Techno |or "Techno Soul") | |MEK | |
