Soul Deep
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A new BBC documentary series on the history of R&B, funk, soul.
“The obscenity and vulgarity of the rock and roll music,” fulminated Asa Carter of the Alabama White Citizens Council, “is obviously a means by which the white man and his children can be driven to the level with the negro.”
Mission, as they say, accomplished. As an enthralling new BBC documentary series, Soul Deep, demonstrates, the “race music” that was once confined to the margins of disenfranchised black society has now become the mainstream.
In the pop charts, in fashion, language and attitude - in the shape of every suburban, finger-flicking wannabe “wigga” decking themselves out in cheap bling and a Rocawear sports top - soul power is the new orthodoxy.
The entire review: How soul power conquered the world.