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Blue Collar -the Portrayal of Working People's Music

BBC Radio 2
on BBC Radio 2

Jimmy Nail presents a series exploring how working-class life has been charted in pop music.
4: Gospel to Soul
Tracing the songs of the slaves, from the cotton fields into the churches of the Deep South, and their incorporation into gospel via legends such as Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

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Mahalia Jackson
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Aretha Franklin.
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