> I often here the term soul and usually in the context of black artists have
> it and white ones don't. It has come up in this discusion about Joni and her
> black fans, it being said that Joni, unlike other white artists, has soul.
>
> I have no idea what you all mean by this. Are we saying that to have soul
> means that the person is authentic in their feeling? that their work comes
> from a genuine place within them and that most white people's art is
> superficial? That cannot be what you all mean because that is racist to say
> the least. Sp please explain what you mean by the term 'soul' when it comes
> to music/art.
> bw
> colin
Hello Colin and the rest of you on the case of solving the soul/skin-colour
question,
I won't try to explain the term soul, but here are some reasonbaly recent
"whites" that I think have it (JM not included - she's in the "clear",
right?):
Claude Debussy
Willie Nelson
Frank Sinatra
Astor Piazolla
Astrud & Joao Gilberto & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Bill Evans (the piano one)
Bryan Ferry
Donald Fagen
Bernard Herrmann
Ennio Morricone
Nino Rota
Michel Legrand
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Joe Zawinul
Burt Bacharach
Thomas Dolby (yep!)
Bjvrk
Django Reinhardt
Kurt Weill & Lotte Lenya
George Gershwin
Irving Berlin
Cole Porter
Vince Guaraldi (who wrote the "Peanuts" music)
For what it's worth, those names came from the top of my head in two
minutes. You might not agree on (or know of?) all of them, but give them
credit for their variety of origin. If we looked a little futher, I'm sure
we'd even find a soulful Fin - or a soulful Swede somewhere.
Isn't this a wonder- - and soulful - world?
Jan
