Soul Era

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Across
  1. 2. This soul singer was murdered by his own father in 1984.
  2. 6. ________ soul refers to soul music that is performed by Caucasian artists.
  3. 8. This sub-genre of soul is known for its elegant and rich sounds due to its compositions of strings, horns, and backing vocals.
  4. 10. ______________ was a common characteristic of soul music. This characteristic pertains to a style of music in which a melody sung by one singer is responded by one or more singers.
  5. 12. _________ soul was a blend of psychedelic rock and soul music. This sub-genre was later responsible for the creation of funk music.
  6. 13. This sub-genre of soul is described as modern-day soul. This musical genre is a combination of contemporary R&B and 1970’s style soul music; it also has elements of hip-hop in it.
  7. 14. This song was considered to be the anthem for the Civil Rights movement.
  8. 16. Soul music reflected the turmoil and the hopes of African-Americans during the ___________ movement.
  9. 18. This subgenre is defined as the harsher version of soul music. This subgenre placed vocals in the background of a song and replaced the vocals with blaring horns.
  10. 19. She is known as the Queen of Soul.
  11. 20. He is considered to be the Godfather of soul music.
Down
  1. 1. He is mainly responsible for the pioneering of soul music.
  2. 3. Which artist(s) was the first one(s) to record and formally release the soul song “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”?
  3. 4. Soul music is described as a hybrid of R&B and _______ music.
  4. 5. __________ soul is strongly rhythmic and influenced by gospel music. It is usually pop-orientated.
  5. 7. This famous soul group was the product of merging two groups, which were the Primes and the Distants.
  6. 9. This soul singer passed away in 1984 after lying in a coma for eight years.
  7. 11. He is acknowledged as one of the soul forefathers. He was kicked out of the gospel group, “Soul Stirrers” after he made a secular version of one of their gospel songs.
  8. 15. Soul music stressed the importance of ____________ culture; it was their identity.
  9. 17. This song is believed to be the first recording of soul music; its secular version is called “I’ve Got A Woman”.