Creating 70's Music|

Group: Chloe, Ashley and Myself

For our 70's performance we decided to choose 'SOUL' as our genre. When looking at soul we found that  soul music is very popular and first originated in the United States in the 1950's and early 1960's/1970's. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz. i looked into the meaning behind his song and also what elements of soul where in his performance that it made it so significant such as the instruments.  

Soul history

The gospel revival and doo-wop merged into the great season of soul music. Soul music was enabled by the commercial boom of "race" music, that had led to the creation of channels and infrastructures run by black entrepreneurs for black artists. This class of black entrepreneurs hired and trained a generation of session musicians, producers and arrangers (not to mention songwriters) who were specifically meant to serve the needs of black music. 

Soul music was also enabled by an unstoppable trend towards black and white integration, as more and more white folks accepted the idea that black culture was not evil or degrading, simply different (African instead of European). The sociopolitical inroads made by jazz also helped legitimise black pop music with the white masses. 

Soul music was also, indirectly, helped by rock music, precisely because rock music made white pop music sound so obsolete. Rock music buried white pop music but did not quite offer an alternative. On the other hand, rock music legitimised black pop music (rock music was basically a white version of rhythm'n'blues), and black pop music did offer an alternative to the Italian crooners and the likes.

As the civil rights movement staged bigger and bigger demonstrations and increased African-American pride, soul music became more than party music for young blacks: it became a rallying flag for the black nationalist movement. While never truly political in nature, soul music's ascent in the pop charts came to represent one of the first (and most visible) successes of the civil-rights movement.

Soul music was born thanks to the innovations of a generation of post-war musicians who, essentially, turned gospel music into a secular form of art.

When looking into this we found it had to fit the suitable role of soul music so we decided to re create Ellie Gouldings- Burn into a soul song by changing the backing music and adding harmonies, changing the tempo and messing around with different elements all so that it would then fit into the soul genre.

Ellie Goulding -Burn Meaning 

 The song had talked about the song in the same sentence regarding civil rights struggles and how people are fighting to get through it.  

"We, we don't have to worry bout nothing" - The Future
"Strike the match, play it loud, giving love to the world" - Sharing Love/Power
"We don't wanna leave, no, we just gonna be right now" - The Fight
"And it's over now, we got the love, there's no secret now, no secret now" - The Fight is over 

We found that this song worked really well when it came to the meaning, for the fact that they are very similar in what they actually mean.  Once we had our song we could then get on with changing the song and making it our own.