Listen to Soul Exploring a Musical Genre provides both an overview and a critical analysis of what makes soul music in the United States.
A list of 50 songs, albums, and musicians includes many of the best-known hits of the past and present as well as several important popular successes that are not necessarily on the best-of lists in other books.
Like the other books in this series, this volume includes a background chapter followed by a chapter that contains 50 critic.