Listen to Soul!: Exploring a Musical Genre

Listen to Soul! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of soul music for fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 must-hear singers, songs, and albums that define it.

Listen to Soul! Exploring a Musical Genre provides both an overview and a critical analysis of what makes soul music in the United States. A list of 50 songs, albums, and musicians includes many of the best-known hits of the past and present as well as several important popular successes that are not necessarily on the best-of lists in other books.

Like the other books in this series, this volume includes a background chapter followed by a chapter that contains 50 critical essays on must-hear albums, songs, and singers, approximately 1,500 words each. Chapters on the impact of soul music on popular culture and the legacy of the genre further explain the impact of these seminal compositions and musicians.

This volume additionally includes a greater focus on soul music as a genre, making it a stand-out title on the topic for high school and college readers.

Allows readers to quickly get a sense of the history of soul music in a broad overview

Delves into critical analysis of 50 songs, albums, and musicians that define the genre

Broadens the definition of what is considered soul music

Discusses the impact on popular culture and legacy of soul music