Exploring SOUL music

Soul is a genre of music that originated in the United States in the late 1950's and early 1960's. This genre of music was influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Including elements of Gospel, Blues, rhythm and Jazz. It reflected the African-American identity, while also stressing the importance of an African-American culture.
The term 'soul' had been used among African-American musicians to emphasise the feeling of being an African-American in the United States. It also became a popular genre of music around the world, directly influencing rock music and the music of Africa.

Common characteristics-
Call and Response
Improvisation

NEO SOUL- This sub-genre of soul incorporates traditional R&B influences, conscious-driven lyrics, and strong female presence into a contemporary world of soul. It's traditional grooves and historical origin is embedded into the new technology, a mixture of live instruments and technology, along with spoken word. Neo-soul is a very interesting sub genre of soul to look deeper into for this project.

With this genre of music being one in which has history, and when listening to it, stimulates a reminiscent feeling, it is important that I create a feeling of nostalgia in these outcomes. Using the results that where shown in my previous survey, i plan on experimenting with pinks, yellow, greens and blues as these are nostalgic colours. I also want to delve into visualising the rhythm and pattern structures of songs as i believe the use of colours, composition will be crucial in creating a visual representation, however very much interesting to experiment with.

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