Peace out to conflicted souls and those that are godless.

Anyway, your boy is chilling in Fran's waiting on his 6 oz peace of death with a side of heart disease.

Fran's is an American diner, (run and owned by Latinos which I find to be really cool). Going with the theme they play ol school rock, doo wop, soul et cetera.

On the loud speaker, "Sweet Soul music"

Got me to thinking...
It's pretty well established that the Black music tradition traces its way back to the church.
- ol negro spirituals (now known as
- gospel
- lots of R&B singers came out of the church...

So obviously there are gonna be some religious themes and imagery in the music. (as there are overtones of Christianity allthroughout Af. American culture)

Now the question is black music from a 'strictly' secular nature different than black music that comes from the church?

If it is different, in what ways?

Soul - Aretha and them folks obviously got trained in the church and you can hear it, both in content and technique

Modern R&B/'Hip Hop Soul' - ummm...I guess you can hear it in Jodeci? (I very well maybe wrong, being that I only care about 1 thing)

Neo Soul - They seem to take inspiration from something other than the Church. (Again I could be wrong)

How about the Blues or Jazz?

And we all know about....well we just won't get into that.

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