Cup-of-joe and Chat with LO: Remembering The Images of Soul

The classic era of soul music  (1956-1972)  established new genres of American music while it shaped the world.  Images of black culture were exposed in a new capacity.  Who can't forget watching the Delfonics, Chi-Lites, Mary Wells, or the Temptations on stage?    Even Bruno Mars expressed that he would not have had a career if it were not from black culture.  His pop-version of classic soul music continues to keep the swag of the classic soul music era alive.

Join me as I chat with Dr. Boukary Swadogo, Scholar, author, filmmaker, and assistant professor of film studies at CUNY, and Etienne A. Gibbs, publisher, social media, and writer chat about the images of soul music.

Pop music’s birthing room was the Civil Rights era (1956-1972), its midwife was the Chitlin Circuit;  its father was rhythm-and-blues, and its’ mother was soul.