Nevertheless, sometimes written explanations are necessary hence these words being read by you. To understand Soul music and its origins it is necessary to understand Black Americans history and culture. Subjected to slavery and taken from their homelands in Africa the people we call Black Americans endured the most horrendous hardships and lives. They triumphed over their sufferings by a combination of their devout Christianity assumed under slavery and their need to express their lives in some form that could not be seen as a direct protest. Hence the musical heritage that has been their gift to the world.
Soul music is a wonderful part of that musical legacy.
In the late 1940's and 1950's this term was a blanket cover-all to allow White Americans to identify records specially produced for Black Americans. The U.S.A. was still a very much segregated society. His early Sun recordings were frequently mistaken for Black music. To make matters more confusing many British groups blurred the issue even further by adopting Blues music into their repertoire and adding their own elements to it to create yet another experience. And so it went on an on.