Soul Music Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown

Name: Soul Music Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
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ISBN: 9780472051083

ISBN-10: 0472051083

ISBN-13: 9780472051083

Edition: 2010

Authors: Joel Rudinow

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"Exceptionally illuminating and philosophically sophisticated." ---Ted Cohen, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago The idea is as strange as it is commonplace---that the "soul" in soul music is more than just a name, that somehow the music truly taps into something essential rooted in the spiritual notion of the soul itself. Or is it strange? From the civil rights movement and beyond, soul music has played a key, indisputable role in moments of national healing. Of course, American popular music has long been embroiled in controversies over its spiritual purity (or lack thereof). But why? However easy it might seem to dismiss these ideas and debates as quaint and merely…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 8/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



What Is Soul? (And What Is Soul Music?)



The "Devil's Music" (Can Music Be Evil?)



Between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (The Dark Night of the Soul)



Blue Notes and Greek Philosophy (Pythagoras, Plato, and Spiritual Intonation)



Bio-Rhythms (From Formalism to Somaesthetics)



Fake It Till You Feel It (Race, Ethnicity, Authenticity in Performance)



Speaking in Tongues (Isn't This All Too Straussian?)



Music as a Healing Art (Music and Medicine, Body and Soul)


Notes


Bibliography


Recommended Listening and Viewing


Index