white soul
white soul noun: rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.
Noun
white soul (uncountable)
- 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
- 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.
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