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Soul-Folk

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Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-folk, Black artists like Terry Callier and Linda Lewis began to reclaim their space in the genre, and... Read More
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Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-folk, Black artists like Terry Callier and Linda Lewis began to reclaim their space in the genre, and use it to bring their own traditions to light—the jazz, the blues, the field hollers, the spirituals—and creating something wholly new, wholly theirs, wholly ours.

Soul-Folk traces the growing imprints of soul-folk and how it made its way from folk tradition to subgenre. Along the way, it explores the musicians, albums, and histories that made the genre what it is.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798765103456

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 169g

Pages: 152

About the Author

Ashawnta Jackson is a writer based in Brooklyn. She writes mostly about music and culture and has written for Atlas Obscura, Artsy, Crime Reads, Bandcamp, JSTOR Daily, The Whitney Museum, and most recently Vinyl Me Please, where she wrote the liner notes for the reissue of Lee Morgan’s Take Twelve. Earlier in her career, she was on the radio at KMHD Jazz Radio in Portland, OR.

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