The world of soul / by Arnold Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Arnold.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Paperback Library.

Paperback library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

United States.

Popular music--United States--Discography.

Jazz.

Soul music--History and criticism.

Soul music.

Soul music--Discography.

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Music.

Genre:

Discographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

380 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Paperback Library, 1971.

Contents:

Soul is

Part I. Blues. Country blues and bottleneck bluesmen; Classic blues; The blues is

; The jazz singers; Black pop and the oreo singers

Part II. Rhythm-and-Blues. Rhyitm-and-blues is

; West Coast R & B record companies; Midwest R & B record giants; East Coast R & B record scene; The foremost rhythm-and-bluesmen; The big three of R & B. Motown: the Detroit sound ; Stax: the Memphis sound ; Atlantic: the Harlem sound; Modern bluesmen

Part III. Soul. Gospel music and Soul; Nina Simone: the rage and fury; James Brown: the frenzy and the sex; Jimi Hendrix: reactive noise and the big nasty; Otis Redding: tough and soulfully tender; Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul; Ray Charles: Soul supreme; Of chitlins, Blue-eyed Soul, and Black capitalists

Part IV. Whiter Soul. Soul '71.

Notes:

"This Paperback Library Edition is published by arrangement with Cowles Book Company, Inc."

Discography: pages 361-368.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "First Printing: April, 1971".

OCLC:

2902986