Soul - Revision history

Edb: Expand the comprehensive music catalogue with reviewed distinct performances; prioritize recent discovery, retain good older music and preserve existing prose, recordings and fields.

2026-10-22T14:05:30Z

Expand the comprehensive music catalogue with reviewed distinct performances; prioritize recent discovery, retain good older music and preserve existing prose, recordings and fields.

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Edb: Add canonical MuGlobe favorite, current-hit and authentic fields to all recording links; preserve existing music and article content

2026-10-22T02:33:42Z

Add canonical MuGlobe favorite, current-hit and authentic fields to all recording links; preserve existing music and article content

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	{\| class="wikitable muglobe-performances"		{\| class="wikitable muglobe-performances"
	\|+ MuGlobe representative performances		\|+ MuGlobe representative performances
	! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes		! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes !! Repertoire kind !! Repertoire date !! Recording date !! Format !! Opening !! Places !! Fit !! Evidence !! Review note !! MuGlobe favorite !! Current hit !! Authentic
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	\| Aretha Franklin \|\| Respect — MDA Telethon \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/_zv_Zoa-j2Q \|\| The official archival performance presents Franklin’s vocal phrasing and forceful reinterpretation of the song with band accompaniment. The source identifies the MDA Telethon setting.<ref name="performance-soul-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zv_Zoa-j2Q Aretha Franklin — Respect — MDA Telethon]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>		\| Aretha Franklin \|\| Respect — MDA Telethon \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/_zv_Zoa-j2Q \|\| The official archival performance presents Franklin’s vocal phrasing and forceful reinterpretation of the song with band accompaniment. The source identifies the MDA Telethon setting.<ref name="performance-soul-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zv_Zoa-j2Q Aretha Franklin — Respect — MDA Telethon]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref> \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| pending \|\| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zv_Zoa-j2Q Existing recording] \|\| Legacy accepted recording retained during curation-field migration; no new age or geographic claims. \|\| <muglobe-flag video="_zv_Zoa-j2Q" field="muglobeFavorite" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="_zv_Zoa-j2Q" field="currentHit" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="_zv_Zoa-j2Q" field="authentic" />
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	\| Al Green \|\| Let’s Stay Together \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/uSu6tcbMOu0 \|\| An official performance video of Green’s soul ballad, pairing a supple lead voice with a restrained groove. It contrasts with the more forceful rhythmic delivery of the Aretha Franklin selection.<ref name="performance-soul-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSu6tcbMOu0 Al Green — Let’s Stay Together]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>		\| Al Green \|\| Let’s Stay Together \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/uSu6tcbMOu0 \|\| An official performance video of Green’s soul ballad, pairing a supple lead voice with a restrained groove. It contrasts with the more forceful rhythmic delivery of the Aretha Franklin selection.<ref name="performance-soul-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSu6tcbMOu0 Al Green — Let’s Stay Together]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref> \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| pending \|\| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSu6tcbMOu0 Existing recording] \|\| Legacy accepted recording retained during curation-field migration; no new age or geographic claims. \|\| <muglobe-flag video="uSu6tcbMOu0" field="muglobeFavorite" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="uSu6tcbMOu0" field="currentHit" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="uSu6tcbMOu0" field="authentic" />
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	\| Otis Redding \|\| Try a Little Tenderness — Live in Europe \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/QcSY5Crphpg \|\| Official audio from the live album, with Redding’s vocal building from a tender opening toward an insistent ensemble climax. This selection highlights the dramatic expansion of a song in soul performance.<ref name="performance-soul-3">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcSY5Crphpg Otis Redding — Try a Little Tenderness — Live in Europe]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18. Context: [https://otisredding.com/albums/live-in-europe/ supporting source].</ref>		\| Otis Redding \|\| Try a Little Tenderness — Live in Europe \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/QcSY5Crphpg \|\| Official audio from the live album, with Redding’s vocal building from a tender opening toward an insistent ensemble climax. This selection highlights the dramatic expansion of a song in soul performance.<ref name="performance-soul-3">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcSY5Crphpg Otis Redding — Try a Little Tenderness — Live in Europe]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18. Context: [https://otisredding.com/albums/live-in-europe/ supporting source].</ref> \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| pending \|\| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcSY5Crphpg Existing recording] \|\| Legacy accepted recording retained during curation-field migration; no new age or geographic claims. \|\| <muglobe-flag video="QcSY5Crphpg" field="muglobeFavorite" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="QcSY5Crphpg" field="currentHit" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="QcSY5Crphpg" field="authentic" />
	\|}		\|}

Edb: Research-led Africa musical geography and article revision; existing recording sections and native bindings preserved.

2026-10-22T01:13:42Z

Research-led Africa musical geography and article revision; existing recording sections and native bindings preserved.

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	== Geography and communities ==		== Geography and communities ==

	The American South and the northern/eastern landscapes shaped by Black migration form a connected deep heartland, with substantial western American continuity. Britain has strong adopted cultures, including regional dance and record communities. Continental Europe, Japan, Brazil and southern Africa contain meaningful listening and performance traditions as well. These fields describe familiarity and participation beyond the original studios. They do not make all music in those regions soul or equate international appreciation with the particular Black American histories that created the field. Root identity and adopted cultural depth remain different but compatible dimensions.		The American South and the northern/eastern landscapes shaped by Black migration form a connected deep heartland, with substantial western American continuity. Britain has strong adopted cultures, including regional dance and record communities. Continental Europe, Japan, Brazil and southern Africa contain meaningful listening and performance traditions as well. These fields describe familiarity and participation beyond the original studios. They do not make all music in those regions soul or equate international appreciation with the particular Black American histories that created the field. Root identity and adopted cultural depth remain different but compatible dimensions.

			METRO FM’s published Soul Therapy program brings soul, R&B and urban jazz into South African broadcast life. This supports maintaining a secondary national listening field rather than marking only individual performers’ homes. The genres overlap in programming but remain separate catalogue entries, and a broadcaster’s reach is treated as evidence of circulation rather than proof of identical tastes throughout its coverage area. <ref name="africa2026-za-soul-broadcast">[https://www.sabc.co.za/sabc/media-statement-metro-fm-announces-its-line-up-for-2024-2025/ SABC, METRO FM 2024/25 programming statement]. Access note: Relevant primary programme statement read.</ref>

	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
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	=== References and further reading ===		=== References and further reading ===

	<references />		<references />

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	== Hotspot mushrooms ==		== Hotspot mushrooms ==

	Black American southern and migration-linked northern/eastern heartlands are broad connected cultural landscapes. Substantial adopted soul communities abroad receive differentiated fields without equating adoption and origin.		Black American southern and migration-linked northern/eastern heartlands are broad connected cultural landscapes. Substantial adopted soul communities abroad receive differentiated fields without equating adoption and origin.

	These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.		These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

			Africa completion review: The connected regional fields are retained; their intensity expresses qualitative musical affinity and is not an audience estimate.

			The fields express editorial judgments about relative musical affinity and reach, not measured audience shares. Radius is the zero edge of a linear fade; same-genre overlaps combine by maximum.

	{\| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"		{\| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
	\|+ MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms		\|+ MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms
	! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes		! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

	\|-		\|-
	\| soul-south \|\| Southern American Soul heartland \|\| 33 \|\| -88 \|\| 1800 \|\| 1 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.		\| soul-south \|\| Southern American Soul heartland \|\| 33.0 \|\| -88.0 \|\| 1800.0 \|\| 1.0 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

	\|-		\|-
	\| soul-northeast \|\| Great Lakes and northeastern Soul landscape \|\| 41 \|\| -82 \|\| 2000 \|\| 1 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.		\| soul-northeast \|\| Great Lakes and northeastern Soul landscape \|\| 41.0 \|\| -82.0 \|\| 2000.0 \|\| 1.0 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

	\|-		\|-
	\| soul-west \|\| Western American Soul landscape \|\| 36 \|\| -119 \|\| 1600 \|\| 0.85 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.		\| soul-west \|\| Western American Soul landscape \|\| 36.0 \|\| -119.0 \|\| 1600.0 \|\| 0.85 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

	\|-		\|-
	\| soul-britain \|\| British and Irish Soul adoption landscape \|\| 54 \|\| -2 \|\| 1100 \|\| 0.95 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.		\| soul-britain \|\| British and Irish Soul adoption landscape \|\| 54.0 \|\| -2.0 \|\| 1100.0 \|\| 0.95 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

	\|-		\|-
	\| soul-europe \|\| Continental European Soul landscape \|\| 49 \|\| 9 \|\| 1800 \|\| 0.7 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.		\| soul-europe \|\| Continental European Soul landscape \|\| 49.0 \|\| 9.0 \|\| 1800.0 \|\| 0.7 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

	\|-		\|-
	\| soul-brazil \|\| Southeastern Brazilian Soul landscape \|\| -22 \|\| -45 \|\| 1500 \|\| 0.75 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.		\| soul-brazil \|\| Southeastern Brazilian Soul landscape \|\| -22.0 \|\| -45.0 \|\| 1500.0 \|\| 0.75 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

	\|-		\|-
	\| soul-japan \|\| Japanese Soul listening landscape \|\| 36 \|\| 137 \|\| 1100 \|\| 0.7 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.		\| soul-japan \|\| Japanese Soul listening landscape \|\| 36.0 \|\| 137.0 \|\| 1100.0 \|\| 0.7 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

	\|-		\|-
	\| soul-southafrica \|\| Southern African Soul adoption landscape \|\| -28 \|\| 27 \|\| 1600 \|\| 0.75 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.		\| soul-southafrica \|\| Southern African Soul adoption landscape \|\| -28.0 \|\| 27.0 \|\| 1600.0 \|\| 0.75 \|\| Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

	\|}		\|}

Edb: Add sourced representative performance playlist; preserve article prose and hotspot mushrooms

2026-10-18T18:13:38Z

Add sourced representative performance playlist; preserve article prose and hotspot mushrooms

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	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
	Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Nina Simone, Mavis Staples, Donny Hathaway and many others provide contrasting entry points. Motown and Philadelphia artists reveal additional related approaches. Studio ensembles, arrangers and songwriters deserve equal attention when explaining how a record works. Compare different performances of a song: a changed tempo, accompaniment or vocal address can transform its meaning. A quiet line may hold as much authority as a climactic cry, and apparently polished production can carry feeling just as powerfully as an intentionally rougher texture.		Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Nina Simone, Mavis Staples, Donny Hathaway and many others provide contrasting entry points. Motown and Philadelphia artists reveal additional related approaches. Studio ensembles, arrangers and songwriters deserve equal attention when explaining how a record works. Compare different performances of a song: a changed tempo, accompaniment or vocal address can transform its meaning. A quiet line may hold as much authority as a climactic cry, and apparently polished production can carry feeling just as powerfully as an intentionally rougher texture.

			== Representative performances ==
			These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

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			\|+ MuGlobe representative performances
			! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes
			\|-
			\| Aretha Franklin \|\| Respect — MDA Telethon \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/_zv_Zoa-j2Q \|\| The official archival performance presents Franklin’s vocal phrasing and forceful reinterpretation of the song with band accompaniment. The source identifies the MDA Telethon setting.<ref name="performance-soul-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zv_Zoa-j2Q Aretha Franklin — Respect — MDA Telethon]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
			\|-
			\| Al Green \|\| Let’s Stay Together \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/uSu6tcbMOu0 \|\| An official performance video of Green’s soul ballad, pairing a supple lead voice with a restrained groove. It contrasts with the more forceful rhythmic delivery of the Aretha Franklin selection.<ref name="performance-soul-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSu6tcbMOu0 Al Green — Let’s Stay Together]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
			\|-
			\| Otis Redding \|\| Try a Little Tenderness — Live in Europe \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/QcSY5Crphpg \|\| Official audio from the live album, with Redding’s vocal building from a tender opening toward an insistent ensemble climax. This selection highlights the dramatic expansion of a song in soul performance.<ref name="performance-soul-3">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcSY5Crphpg Otis Redding — Try a Little Tenderness — Live in Europe]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18. Context: [https://otisredding.com/albums/live-in-europe/ supporting source].</ref>
			\|}

	== Related genres ==		== Related genres ==
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Edb: Create researched genre article and inferred regional musical landscapes; Ed’s approved authoring method

2026-10-18T02:08:02Z

Create researched genre article and inferred regional musical landscapes; Ed’s approved authoring method

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== Summary ==
Soul is an African American popular-music family in which expressive singing, rhythmic interaction and the transformation of personal feeling into shared experience are central. Gospel, blues and rhythm-and-blues histories contribute distinct resources without supplying a single formula. The category includes intimate ballads, forceful dance records, elaborate orchestration and spare ensemble work. Its cultural identity developed through particular Black communities and institutions while reaching a much wider public. Soul is therefore more than a compliment meaning emotionally convincing singing: it describes connected musical practices, histories and social relationships. <ref name="stax-collection">[https://staxmuseum.org/museum/collection/ Collection — Stax Museum of American Soul Music].</ref>

== Contemporary and trending ==
Classic repertoire remains part of everyday listening, celebration, radio and performance, while newer musicians continually reinterpret its resources. Independent labels, community musicians and younger vocalists sustain different continuities from celebrity tribute concerts. The Stax Museum's combination of gospel history, studio interpretation and dancing illustrates how this legacy extends beyond a row of famous records. Revival and inherited familiarity coexist. A listener may know a melody through family gatherings, a sample or a contemporary cover before discovering the original artist, making transmission less linear than a chronological record history suggests.

== History ==
Midtwentieth-century Black gospel and secular music shared musicians, expressive techniques and audiences even where social expectations separated their settings. Postwar migration, changing recording markets and local institutions helped produce differing regional sounds. Southern recording centers, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia and other networks contributed major chapters. The civil-rights era also made ideas of self-definition and collective voice especially resonant, without turning every love song into an explicit political statement. Soul developed through this combination of artistic agency, social change and the practical work of writers, ensembles, singers and engineers.

== Musical characteristics ==
Listen to the singer's movement around the pulse, the shaping of a syllable and the moment when a private statement becomes an invitation for response. Repetition can intensify rather than merely duplicate a phrase. Bass, drums, guitar, keyboards and horns converse through short parts whose interaction creates the groove. Strings or backing voices can enlarge the emotional frame. Some performances use vocal roughness; others achieve force through restraint and precision. The expressive choice is not simply how much a singer embellishes, but what a particular sound does within the lyric and arrangement.

== Geography and communities ==
The American South and the northern/eastern landscapes shaped by Black migration form a connected deep heartland, with substantial western American continuity. Britain has strong adopted cultures, including regional dance and record communities. Continental Europe, Japan, Brazil and southern Africa contain meaningful listening and performance traditions as well. These fields describe familiarity and participation beyond the original studios. They do not make all music in those regions soul or equate international appreciation with the particular Black American histories that created the field. Root identity and adopted cultural depth remain different but compatible dimensions.

== Artists ==
Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Nina Simone, Mavis Staples, Donny Hathaway and many others provide contrasting entry points. Motown and Philadelphia artists reveal additional related approaches. Studio ensembles, arrangers and songwriters deserve equal attention when explaining how a record works. Compare different performances of a song: a changed tempo, accompaniment or vocal address can transform its meaning. A quiet line may hold as much authority as a climactic cry, and apparently polished production can carry feeling just as powerfully as an intentionally rougher texture.

== Related genres ==
Rhythm and blues, gospel, funk, disco and neo-soul share musical resources and overlapping histories. Their distinctions involve social context, period and arrangement as well as timbre. Soul is especially useful as a broad navigation category when its internal diversity remains audible. The compelling interaction is between individual voice and communal language: a singer sounds unmistakably personal while working through gestures, rhythmic relationships and expectations that others recognize. That combination helps explain how particular recordings can remain meaningful across generations and acquire new local lives far beyond their first public.

=== References and further reading ===
<references />

* [https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/freedom-sounds-tell-it-like-it-is-a-history-of-rhythm-and-blues Tell It Like It Is: A History of Rhythm and Blues — Smithsonian Folklife]

* [https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/freedom-sounds-tell-it-like-it-is-a-history-of-rhythm-and-blues Smithsonian Folklife — Tell It Like It Is: A History of Rhythm and Blues]

== Hotspot mushrooms ==
Black American southern and migration-linked northern/eastern heartlands are broad connected cultural landscapes. Substantial adopted soul communities abroad receive differentiated fields without equating adoption and origin.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

{| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
|+ MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms
! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

|-
| soul-south || Southern American Soul heartland || 33 || -88 || 1800 || 1 || Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

|-
| soul-northeast || Great Lakes and northeastern Soul landscape || 41 || -82 || 2000 || 1 || Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

|-
| soul-west || Western American Soul landscape || 36 || -119 || 1600 || 0.85 || Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

|-
| soul-britain || British and Irish Soul adoption landscape || 54 || -2 || 1100 || 0.95 || Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

|-
| soul-europe || Continental European Soul landscape || 49 || 9 || 1800 || 0.7 || Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

|-
| soul-brazil || Southeastern Brazilian Soul landscape || -22 || -45 || 1500 || 0.75 || Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

|-
| soul-japan || Japanese Soul listening landscape || 36 || 137 || 1100 || 0.7 || Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

|-
| soul-southafrica || Southern African Soul adoption landscape || -28 || 27 || 1600 || 0.75 || Sustained regional production, shared listening and cultural adoption beyond individual venues; soft edge is an editorial interpretation, not measured audience share.

|}