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Soul music --- Soul (Musique) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique

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Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of black empowerment. In Move On Up, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the explosion of soul music in Chicago. Together, soul music and black-owned businesses thrived. Record producers and song-writers broadcast optimism for black America's future through their sophisticated, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and many others. Curtis Mayfield boldly sang of uplift with unmistakable grooves like "We're a Winner" and "I Plan to Stay a Believer." Musicians like Phil Cohran and the Pharaohs used their music to voice Afrocentric philosophies that challenged racism and segregation, while Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire and Chaka Khan created music that inspired black consciousness. Soul music also accompanied the rise of African American advertisers and the campaign of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983. This empowerment was set in stark relief by the social unrest roiling in Chicago and across the nation: as Chicago's homegrown record labels produced rising stars singing songs of progress and freedom, Chicago's black middle class faced limited economic opportunities and deep-seated segregation, all against a backdrop of nationwide deindustrialization. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and a music critic's passion for the unmistakable Chicago soul sound, Cohen shows us how soul music became the voice of inspiration and change for a city in turmoil.

Soul music --- Soul music --- Soul music --- Soul musicians --- African Americans --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Music --- History and criticism. --- African American. --- Chicago. --- Curtis Mayfield. --- cultural. --- empowerment. --- music. --- social. --- soul music.

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rhythm and blues music --- African Americans --- History and criticism. --- Music --- Popular music --- Blues (Music) --- Soul music

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Blues (Music) --- Funk (Music) --- Rhythm and blues music. --- Soul music. --- Rap (Music)

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Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940's to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century. Although sometimes called ""doo-wop,"" ""soul,"" ""funk,"" ""urban contemporary,"" or ""hip-hop,"" R&B is actually an umbrella category that includes all of these styles and genres. It is in fact a modern-day incarnation of a musical tradition that stretches back to nineteenth-century America, and even further to African beginnings. The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999 traces the development of R&B from 1950 to 1999

Funk (Music) --- Rap (Music) --- Rhythm and blues music --- Soul music --- History and criticism.