Soul Unsung - Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music - Kevin Le Gendre

Soul Unsung - Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music - Kevin Le Gendre

The soul-funk continuum

Soul Unsung - Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music - Kevin Le Gendre

Kevin Le Gendre [+-]
Journalist and Broadcaster
Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broadcaster with a special interest in black music, literature and culture. Since the 1990s he has written about soul, funk, jazz and hip-hop, as well as African and Caribbean authors, for many publications including Echoes, Jazzwise, The Independent On Sunday, Qwest TV (France) and Times Literary Supplement Online. He contributes to BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and also presents Radio 3’s J To Z. He is the author of Don’t Stop The Carnival: Black Music in Britain Vol.1 (Peepal Tree Press, 2018) and Soul Unsung: Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music (Equinox Publishing, 2012).

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This chapter looks at the history of funk as a concept in African American mores and music in the run-up to the 1960s and thereafer when R&B had become soul and funk, a distinct brand of soul.

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Le Gendre, Kevin . The soul-funk continuum. Soul Unsung - Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 58-74 Nov 2012. ISBN 9781845535438. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=25535. Date accessed: 24 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.25535. Nov 2012

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