Spoken word soul

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name=Spoken word soul
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stylistic_origins= Neo soul
cultural_origins=Early 2000s, PHI, US
instruments=Synthesizers - Keyboard - Drum machine
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Spoken Word Soul-An eclectic blend of Poetry, Jazz-funk, Electronica & acoustic Country soul music elements. The style is largely considered to be an underground offshoot of the Neo Soul movement from the 1990's & became very popular around the turn of the century (2000 A.D.), to the present. From origins in 50's & 60's Beatnik culture & Bop Jazz associations, Spoken Word Soul music has become very popular today as indie artists (Musicians, Singer-songwriters, Poets) & thepublic, dissatisfied & frustrated with current major record label releases & business practices, utilized thepower of the internet to network globally with other Artists & fans; as a result, the Genre has become an international "Underground culture" of sorts via the increased use of various music & blog sites such as Myspace, You Tube, Solarradio.com, DustyGroove.com, CDBaby & Soulchoonz, etc. Artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, The Watts Prophets, and contemporary artists like Meshell Ndegeocello, Jill Scott, Floetry, & Ursula Rucker are considered the "Progenitors" of this style of Soul, while Indie (Unsigned) acts such as Detroit bred-Atlanta, Ga based artist Abyss, Baltimore's brilliant Taalam Acey, Fayetteville N.C.-basedartist & radio personality Val "Imani" Jones, L.A.-based Actor/Poet-Bassist Malcolm Jamal Warner, along with the jazz-funk flavorings of Cincinnati-based Shades Of J and others, are constantly releasing powerful, thought provoking blends of original Spoken Word music with insightful, creative expression, all while expanding the Genre worldwide. "It's still Evolving", says Shades of J Co-founder/ producerDonald "Dee M" Manor, of the musical style. "Spoken Word Soul has been around & will Always be relevant."

References

* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4620891 Who is Jill Scott? Now she's a Poet, too..]

Algarin & Holman, "ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe"
*Cross, Brian (1993). "It's Not About a Salary: Rap, Race, and Resistance in Los Angeles". The Haymarket series. London and New York: Verso.
*Imhorst, Christian: [http://www.imhorst.net/?page_id=21 The ‘Lost Generation’ of the Music Industry] , published under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License 2004
*Leonhard, Gerd: "Music Like Water - the inevitable music ecosystem"

Print

*"Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965" published by the Whitney Museum of American Art in accordance with an exhibition in 1995/1996 -- ISBN 0-87427-098-7 softcover, ISBN 2-08-013613-5 hardcover (Flammarion)
*Sanders, Ed "Tales of Beatnik Glory" (second edition, 1990) ISBN 0-8065-1172-9
*"The Word Is Here: Poetry from Modern Africa." New York: Anchor, 1973.
*"When the Clouds Clear." Johannesburg: Congress of South African Writers, 1990.
*"Approaches to Poetry Writing." Chicago: Third World, 1994.
*"To the Bitter End." Chicago: Third World, 1995.
*"If I Could Sing: Selected Poems." Roggebaai, South Africa: Kwela and Plumstead, South Africa: Snailpress, 2002.

External links

* [http://www.msu.edu/course/atl/1004/garrelts/revo.mp3 Audio of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"]
* [http://gilscottheron.free.fr Gil Scott-Heron french website]
* [http://www.gilscottheron.com/ Malcolm X, Gil Scott-Heron and Stevie Wonder (speeches, discographies and lyrics)]
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* [http://www.dropmagazine.com/is-there-a-future-for-spoken-word/ Is There A Future For Spoken Word? @ dropmagazine.com]
* [http://www.DigiFlowz.net/ DigiFlowz.Net Spoken Word and Underground Hip-Hop Distribution Network]
* [http://www.southernartistry.org/portfolio.cfm?id=220&last=community Hedwig Gorski's Portfolio on the Southern Artistry Site]
* [http://www.e-poets.net E-poets network]
* [http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Langston_Hughes Selected works by Langston Hughes]
* [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article_center.php?in_type=58 Jazz Poetry @ All About Jazz]

*"The Last Poets" (1970):: (Poets: Abiodun Oyewole, Alafia Pudim (a.k.a. Jalal Mansur Nuriddin), & Omar Bin Hassan)
*"This Is Madness" (1971):: (Poets: Alafia Pudim (a.k.a. Jalal Mansur Nuriddin) & Omar Bin Hassan)
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=95747580 Official MySpace page of Meschell Ndegeochello]
* [http://malcolm-jamalwarner.com/ Malcolm-Jamal Warner] Official Website]
* [http://aalbc.com/authors/ursula.htm Ursula Rucker article @ aalbc]
* [http://www.ursula-rucker.com Ursula-rucker.com]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=62309917 Shades Of J @ Myspace.com]
* [http://www.iamvaljones.com/ Val Jones Edutainment]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=25920755 AbyssLivePoets]
* [http://www.taalamacey.com Taalam Acey Official Website]