Soul Unsung - Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music - Kevin Le Gendre
What is this thing called soul?
Soul Unsung - Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music - Kevin Le Gendre
Kevin Le Gendre [+]
Journalist and Broadcaster
Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broadcaster with a special interest in black music, literature and culture. Since the 1990s he has written about soul, funk, jazz and hip-hop, as well as African and Caribbean authors, for many publications including Echoes, Jazzwise, The Independent On Sunday, Qwest TV (France) and Times Literary Supplement Online. He contributes to BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and also presents Radio 3’s J To Z. He is the author of Don’t Stop The Carnival: Black Music in Britain Vol.1 (Peepal Tree Press, 2018) and Soul Unsung: Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music (Equinox Publishing, 2012).
Description
The author explores the history of the term 'soul music' and related concepts like 'soul food' and the underlying concept 'soul' and how it was deployed in movements such as Black Power and the Civil Rights Movement along with reflections about what was demonstrably 'soul' about the music of certain bands and performers from the 1960s through to the present day.