Soul America – Season 1
2020
3 Episodes
Episodes
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S01E01
Amazing Grace
This first episode travels through the South, from Muscle Shoals in Alabama to Stax in Memphis, taking a detour north to Detroit, to explore how Motown's most soulful achievement showed the whole world a successful, sophisticated image of black people, at a time when Motown musicians themselves were subject to the same treatment as any black American.
04 Sept 2020
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S01E02
Say It Loud
How inequality, poverty and racism drove black American musicians to a harder soul sound in the late 60s and early 70s.
11 Sept 2020
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S01E03
Sweet Love
How, in the 70s and 80s, a second coming of soul men offered a black female audience slow jams and sexual healing.
18 Sept 2020