Soul America
2020 · BBC Four · 60 min · 1 season
S01E03 · Sweet Love
Sat, 19 Sept, 6:00 am
How, in the 70s and 80s, a second coming of soul men offered a black female audience slow jams and sexual healing.
About
Soul America chronicles the journey of soul music, from its birth out of gospel and R&B in the 1960s, when it delivered an assertive, integrated vision of black America, and produced its first generation of stars including Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin.
Episodes
- E01
Amazing Grace
Sat, 5 Sept· 60 minThis 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.
- E02
Say It Loud
Sat, 12 Sept· 60 minIn the late 1960s and early 1970s, black America went to war. Inequality, poverty and racism fanned the flames of radical black politics and a harder soul sound from artists such as Isaac Hayes, James Brown and The Temptations.
- E03
Sweet Love
Sat, 19 Sept· 60 minHow, in the 70s and 80s, a second coming of soul men offered a black female audience slow jams and sexual healing.
Cast
Carleen Anderson
Narrator