Soul music
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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporan
Ray Charles pioneered the soul music genre during the 1950s by combining blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles.
James Brown was known as the "Godfather of Soul".
Sam Cooke is regarded as one of soul music's "forefathers".
Solomon Burke recorded for Atlantic Records in the 1960s.
Funk
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Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that wer
Soul music
…development and all gained widespread popularity during this time. By 1968, the soul music genre had begun to splinter. Some soul artists moved to funk music, while other singers and groups developed slicker, more sophisticated, and in some cases more socially conscious varieties. By the early 1970s…
James Brown, a pioneer of funk, in 1973; one of his many nicknames was the "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk"
The rhythm section of a funk band—the electric bass, drums, electric guitar and keyboards—is the heartbeat of the funk sound. Pictured here are the Meters.
Bootsy Collins performing in 1996 with a star-shaped bass
The drum groove from "Cissy Strut"