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white soul en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.
   • One of the dangers of “white soul” that revives black music traditions outside of their original cultural context is that the cultural past may be resurrected not to be celebrated or reworked, but to be replaced by new narratives that enshrine white experience and benefit white musicians. 1998, “Soul's Revival”, in Monique Guillory, Richard C. Green, editors, Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 156:
2. (uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, soul.

Synonyms

blue-eyed soul

Translations (3)

cmn 白人靈魂樂 /白人灵魂乐 (rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists) · pt soul branco (rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists) · fi sinisilmäinen soul (rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists)