Soul + Motown

[Mel Singer]

In what various ways did soul music and its performers affect the civil rights movement?

Soul artists sang about the hard times that the African Americans were going through. There is no American movement of the 20th or 21st century more connected to music than the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Protesters, sang freedom songs to keep their spirits up. Folksingers, both black and white, wrote songs about the pain and struggles of the racism that had long troubled American life...

Civil rights leaders tended to admire James Brown much more than other great soul or Motown artists. What are some of the likely reasons for that?

So James Brown received the recognition as "The Godfather of Soul" which was one of his bigger titles/nicknames... His unique musical and vocal style influenced many different-big artists. James Brown was also know for his personal life, as well as his social activism.  Fact: The day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Brown gave a live TV concert in Boston in an attempt to prevent rioting there, (as opposed to all of the rioting that was happening across America).  I think that he was usually admired by Civil Rights Leaders more that other artists during that time because he would go out and do more for America and Social Activism.

[KAILEY NEIL]

I like that fact you added in it's interesting, but I definitely agree.

[NATALIE MARSHALL]

i like your fact!

where there any white singers that sung about racism bc idk if they really have anything to say about it???

[MELANIE WRIGHT]

I like that fact that you included and I agree with what you said, good job including more details as well