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| author = Terry Pratchett
| central theme = The price of fame
| elevator pitch = Young Imp Celyn rashly vows to become the Disc's most famous musician - and ''something'' agrees, leading him to more than a brush with Death (and Death's granddaughter, Susan).
| genre = Fantasy
| franchise = Discworld
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| publication date = 1994
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The 16th ''[[Discworld]]'' novel, and third in the Death theme
There are two interconnected plots: in the first, the deaths of Mort and Ysabell in a car(t) crash cause another case of [[Death Takes a Holiday]] after a [[Heroic BSOD]], leading to his "granddaughter" (Mort and Ysabell's daughter) Susan taking over The Duty, and incidentally becoming one of Disc fandom's favourite characters. She only met her grandfather once or twice as a young child, and afterwards was raised by her parents to take a very cold and rational view of things, which is not much of a survival trait on the Disc.
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Unfortunately for the young [[The Rock Star|"Musics With Rocks In" Star]], supernatural forces have conspired that he should live fast...and die young. Can Susan fight fate and save his life?
Was made (along with ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]'') into an [[Animated Adaptation]]. The L-space entry is [http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/soul-music.html here], and explains the numerous sly references to famous bands and songs. A fan-created expanded version is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120507165307/http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Book:Soul_Music/Annotations here] and picks up the slack since the official annotated Pratchett file has not been updated for six years{{when}}.
[[Don't Explain the Joke|This novel's title is a pun,]] [[Running Gag|or play on words,]] on (of course) the [[Soul Music|music genre]].
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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Death's scythe. (Which is temporarily converted to Death's {{spoiler|guitar pick.}})
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon|A Worldwide Puneomenon]]: Several:▼
** Quoth the Raven, on why he wanted to come to a battlefield: "Carrion regardless"▼
** The Archchancellor calling music "a world of hertz".▼
** ''Soul Music'' provides the page quote for [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], including both the pun and its lampshading.▼
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
{{quote|"[Music With Rocks in It] made you want to kick down walls and ascend the sky on steps of fire. It made you want to pull all the switches and throw all the levers and stick your fingers in the electric socket of the Universe to see what happened next. It made you want to [[Rolling Stones|paint your bedroom wall black]] and cover it with posters."}}
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** The Librarian is playing [[Space Invaders|Barbarian Invaders]].
** A small dog stops to listen to one of Dibbler's sound-capture boxes, in reference to the dog-and-gramophone painting "His Master's Voice", from which British media-outlet HMV gets its name and logo.
** Whatever that two-wheeled vehicle is supposed to be -- the one that's shown on the novel's cover outside of the USA -- the wizards are so impressed with its construction that they declare its completion to be [[w:Triumph Motorcycles Ltd|a triumph]].
** Adrian Turnipseed might be a shout-out to [[w:Donald Turnupseed|Donald Turnupseed]].
* [[Soul Jar]]: Albert's hourglass/beer bottle.
* [[Stealth Pun]]:
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* [[Welcome to the Big City]]: As buskers do, Imp puts a few coins in his bowl as "seed money". The next time he looks down, they've gone.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: The fate of Glod, Cliff and Asphalt is left even more ambiguous than that of Imp.
▲* [[A Worldwide Punomenon|A Worldwide Puneomenon]]: Several:
▲** Quoth the Raven, on why he wanted to come to a battlefield: "Carrion regardless"
▲** The Archchancellor calling music "a world of hertz".
▲** ''Soul Music'' provides the page quote for [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], including both the pun and its lampshading.
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: A troll band [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|calls itself "Trolls"]]. Dibbler tells them to spell it with a Z.
* [[You Cannot Kill an Idea]]: At the end, after Death has smashed the guitar:
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{{Discworld novels}}
{{The Big Read}}
[[Category:Soul Music]]
[[Category:Music Stories]]
[[Category:Discworld]]
▲[[Category:Soul Music]]
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