Spoken Word Soul is 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 1990s & became very popular around the turn of the century (2000 A.D. ), to the present.

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  • Spoken Word Soul is 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 1990s & 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) & the public, dissatisfied & frustrated with current major record label releases & business practices, utilized the power 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, London's Solarradio. com, DustyGroove. com, CDBaby & Apple's I-Tunes, 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 acts such as Detroit bred-Atlanta, Ga based artist Abyss, Baltimore's brilliant Taalam Acey, Cincinnati bred acts Lady Khadyja, "Hidden", the Jazz Funk poetic soul band Shades of J along with the collective "Village of 144,000", North Carolina based artists & radio personalities Monica Daye & Fayetteville's Val "Imani" Jones, famed L.A. -based Actor/Poet-Bassist Malcolm Jamal Warner, Indy's Tasha Jones, 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 Guitarist/ Producer Don "Dee M" Manor ......... "Spoken Word Soul has been around in various guises & will Always be relevant."
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  • Mid 1950's, Early 2000s, NYC, PHI, US
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  • Spoken Word Soul is 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 1990s & became very popular around the turn of the century (2000 A.D. ), to the present.
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