Soul America
Soul America
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Soul America

2020
1 season
3 episodes
Documentary

A three-part docuseries chronicling the journey of soul music, from its birth out of gospel and R&B in the 1960s, when it delivered an assertive, integrated vision of black America, and produced its first generation of stars including Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Amazing Grace

    04-09-2020

    This first episode travels through the South, from Muscle Shoals in Alabama to Stax in Memphis, taking a detour north to Detroit, to explore how Motown's most soulful achievement s...

  • Ep 2

    2.Say It Loud

    11-09-2020

    How inequality, poverty and racism drove black American musicians to a harder soul sound in the late 60s and early 70s.

  • Ep 3

    3.Sweet Love

    18-09-2020

    How, in the 70s and 80s, a second coming of soul men offered a black female audience slow jams and sexual healing.

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