CAROLINA SOUL ON WUNC-FM
Recently, WUNC’s The State of Things featured Jason Perlmutter and Joshua C. Davis. Jason Perlmutter is the founder of the Web site, http://www.carolinasoul.org, a unique discography of local soul music. Josh Davis recently earned his Ph.D in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has researched the way Civil Rights battles of the 1960s affected black consumer culture in the next decade.
In the 1960s and 1970s, African-Americans in the South could count on record stores in their neighborhoods to stock the latest R&B and soul music that white stores refused to carry. These black-owned businesses also served as informal community centers where people would gather to socialize and discuss issues of the day. In North Carolina, black music entrepreneurs like Curt Moore of Charlotte also recorded local artists on their own small, independent labels. Read More…