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white soul

white soul noun: rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.

Noun

white soul (uncountable)

  1. Rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.
    • One of the dangers of “white soul” that revives black music traditions outside of their original cultural context is that the cultural past may be resurrected not to be celebrated or reworked, but to be replaced by new narratives that enshrine white experience and benefit white musicians.1998, “Soul's Revival”, in Monique Guillory, Richard C. Green, editors, Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 156
    Synonyms:
    blue-eyed soul
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, soul.

Synonyms of white soul

Questions about white soul

What does white soul mean?
White soul means rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.
What part of speech is white soul?
White soul is a noun.

Words near white soul in the dictionary

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  10. white Spanish broom
  11. white spirit

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