Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Music has no limits, borders or ages.
The soul has no gender.
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
Who says soul has only one colour?
Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.