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soul music
noun
- a fervent type of popular music developed in the late 1950s by Black Americans as a secularized form of gospel music, with rhythm-and-blues influences, and distinctive for its earthy expressiveness, variously plaintive or raucous vocals, and often passionate romanticism or sensuality.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of soul music1
An Americanism dating back to 1960–65
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Example Sentences
Bobby Womack was one of the greatest exemplars of the mutual pleasure program of soul music.
From The Daily Beast
Revisiting the soul music of Womack is a good first step to rescuing the reciprocity necessary for real intimacy.
From The Daily Beast
The flip side of that, though, is their passion for the soul music of the past, and for its promise of redemption.
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Wells transformed old cheating and heart songs into soul music by resisting the overplay of emotion, writes singer Laura Cantrell.
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We know what Borel has written on the gamelan (he calls it soul music).
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