Soul Music Records will be honoring Phyllis Hyman with a deluxe 9-disc retrospective of her career titled Phyllis Hyman – Old Friend: The Deluxe Collection 1976-1998
Altercation: Race, Vietnam, and the New Left in Mid-Century
George Scialabba discusses the limits of Louis Menandâs new tome on America in the Cold War era.
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Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, is restrained by police as he walks onto the platform at the University of Californiaâs Greek Theatre in Berkeley, December 7, 1964.
Iâm about three-quarters of the way through Louis Menandâs 880-page
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, and I lack the vocabulary to say how impressive I find its scholarly range and ambition as well as the fairness and sympathy the author shows for his subjects. (My partner says she is really sick of me reading my Kindle at night and then stopping to tell her all about what I just read.) There are a few parts of the book I feel qualified to judge, even a few that Iâve written about in my own books. In each of these, however, Iâve still learned something, because Menand
The new box set examines the early years of Gamble and Huff’s Philadelphia International Records, a soul-music label that defined its city the way Stax did Memphis and Motown did Detroit.
Get on Board the Soul Train: The Sound of Philadelphia International Records Volume 1
This is sophisticated and smooth Philly Soul from the genre’s most successful period. The box set handsomely presents remastered versions of this classic music from 50 years ago.
Get on Board the Soul Train: The Sound of Philadelphia International Records Volume 1
Various Artists
28 May 2021
Back in the mid-’60s, the Philly Sound was a well-known and recognizable musical genre. Thanks to DJs and promoters like the great Jerry Blavat, Hy Lit, Frank X Feller, and vocal groups such as the Magnificent Men, the Delfonics, and the Soul Survivors, Philly music enjoyed a celebrated reputation among other artists and fans. It was considered rougher than the popular Motown label of the period, but not as bluesy as the Southern soul coming out of Muscle Shoals or Memphis. The Philly Soul sound was smooth without being shallow. The singers put their hearts on their sleeves and largely expressed their e
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