Soul America
A three-part docuseries chronicling the journey of soul music, from its birth out of gospel and R&B in the 1960s, when it delivered an assertive, integrated vision of black America, and produced its first generation of stars including Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin.
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0% doneThis first episode travels through the South, from Muscle Shoals in Alabama to Stax in Memphis, taking a detour north to Detroit, to explore how Motown's most soulful achievement showed the whole world a successful, sophisticated image of black people, at a time when Motown musicians themselves were subject to the same treatment as any black American.
How inequality, poverty and racism drove black American musicians to a harder soul sound in the late 60s and early 70s.
How, in the 70s and 80s, a second coming of soul men offered a black female audience slow jams and sexual healing.
