northern soul
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A music and dance movement of northern England in the late 1960s, mainly based around black American soul music.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The overwhelmingly young population involved in northern soul needed to find a way out of the depression slowly taking over the UK in the seventies. Speed gave them the edge they needed to rise above all the pain and frustration of a country losing its way."
- "Meanwhile more people were either leaving behind the Northern Soul scene and enjoying the jazz-funk scene, or combining the two."
- "For many young people throughout Britain in the 1970s, Northern Soul became a truly alternative lifestyle with the rites and values of the scene replacing many of the traditional strictures of society."