Soul category: 101 books
by Mike Evans
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
For a generation of musicians and fans, the late Ray Charles provided the catalyst that fused the previously largely exclusive genres of jazz, blues and gospel music. In an era when jazz and pop music were seemingly poles apart, the impact of Charles’ music was truly revolutionary in that it brought...
Memphis 68
The Tragedy of Southern Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease...
Got to Be Something Here
The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Beginning in the year of Prince’s birth, 1958, with the recording of Minnesota’s first R&B record by a North Minneapolis band called the Big Ms, Got to Be Something Here traces the rise of that distinctive sound through two generations of political upheaval, rebellion, and artistic passion.
Funk...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
You've seen the movie, now get the rest of the story.This book is about the music.James Brown has had more of an influence on the music we listen to today than almost anyone else. He grew up in abject poverty, a black man in the post-depression south. His chances of making it in...
Aretha
The Queen of Soul—A Life in Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
**This **beautifully illustrated unofficial retrospective celebrates the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, and reflects on her life, music, and legacy.
Aretha Franklin’s voice was legendary, unforgettable: deeply rooted in gospel, yet versatile enough to brilliantly interpret R&B, rock,...
The R & B, Soul and Funk Trunk
Pop Gallery eBooks, #8
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
“The R & B, Soul and Funk Trunk” (Includes Video Notebook Links at the End of the Manuscript)This eBook traces as far back as Fats Domino and that version of R & B all the way until Disco started to infiltrate the international psyche. James Brown, Aretha, Michael Jackson, they are all there in the...
Say It One Time For The Brokenhearted
Country Soul In The American South
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted was the first of many titles by renowned UK music journalist Barney Hoskyns. Thirty years after its publication he revisited the modern-day classic for this revised and expanded anniversary edition that marks the book's first publication in the US. Fascinated...
To the Ends of the Earth
Northern Soul and Southern Nights in Western Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Northern Soul is a cultural phenomenon twice removed from its original source in Britain in the late 1960s. Rooted in gospel and rhythm and blues music, with pounding “four-to-the floor” beats, it is often accompanied by swirling strings, vibraphone flourishes, and infectious clapping. Since the...
Inside the Godfather
Never Before Told Stories of James Brown by His Inner Circle
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
If you think that you know the soul truth about James Brown, think again! Inside the Godfather is a history changing book about DRUGS, SEX, LIES, ADULTERY, RACISM, MURDER, RELIGION, POLITICS, DECEIT, LUST, Rock & Roll and BRIBERY but most importantly, we will set the record straight about James Brown,...
The One
The Life and Music of James Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on his life as a Civil Rights activist, an entrepreneur, and the most innovative musician of our time
Playing 350 shows a year at his peak, with more than forty Billboard hits, James Brown was a dazzling...
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The first and only definitive biography of legendary Motown group, the Temptations
The Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of chart-topping hits such as My Girl and Papa Was a Rollin Stone. From the sharp suits, stylish choreography, and distinctive vocals that epitomized...
by Emily J. Lordi
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In January of 1979, the great soul artist Donny Hathaway fell fifteen stories from a window of Manhattan's Essex House Hotel in an alleged suicide. He was 33 years old and everyone he worked with called him a genius. Best known for "A Song for You,†? "This Christmas,†? and classic duets...
Respect Yourself
Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal,...
Detroit 67
The Year That Changed Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the break-up...