SOUL music is a style of pop music developed by African-Americans combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. 

    The term was first used in the 1960s to describe a combination of rhythm and blues, gospel, jazz, and rock music. Characterized by intensity of feeling and earthiness in its earliest stages, soul music was found most commonly in Southern US. But many of the young singers migrated to cities in Northern US and popularized the genre. 

   Soul is differentiated from rhythm and blues by its use of gospel-music devices, its greater emphasis on vocalists, and its combination of religious and nonreligious themes.

    靈魂音樂(lè)是流行音樂(lè)的一種形式，是由非裔美國(guó)人融入教堂音樂(lè)和藍(lán)調(diào)元素后發(fā)展而來(lái)的。 

    在20世紀(jì)60年代，這個(gè)術(shù)語(yǔ)第一次被用來(lái)描述結(jié)合了藍(lán)調(diào)，教堂音樂(lè)，爵士樂(lè)和搖滾樂(lè)元素的音樂(lè)。在早期。靈魂音樂(lè)的特點(diǎn)是具有樸實(shí)強(qiáng)烈的感情色彩，當(dāng)時(shí)它在南美最受人們的歡迎。但是隨著許多年輕的歌手移居到北美的城市后，靈魂音樂(lè)變得多元化了。 

    因?yàn)槭褂昧私烫靡魳?lè)的模式，所以靈魂音樂(lè)和藍(lán)調(diào)是不同的，靈魂音樂(lè)更強(qiáng)調(diào)歌手的唱功，更偏愛(ài)以結(jié)合宗教和非宗教的內(nèi)容為主題。