This paper explores how neo soul sounds, rhythm and lyrics reflect a global 'afro' musical aesthetic that stresses a diasporan belonging rather than a black and African American identity. While, in the 1970s, soul meant affirming blackness and maximizing ethnic difference (Gilroy 2000: 252) in the tumultuous political and social context of the United Sates, neo soul today embodies African Americans' attempt to connect to a larger space: an Afro-descendant world usually named the African diaspora. ![]() In the early 1990s, neo soul appeared as a 'post-soul' genre whose leading artists (Erykah Badu, Amel Larrieux, D'Angelo or Jill Scott), recalled Marvin Gaye's languid slows as much as Stevie Wonder's funk.
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