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    Neo soul emerged from soul and contemporary R&B music in the 1980s and 1990s, incorporating elements of funk, jazz, hip hop, and African music. It was marketed by Motown Records as a uniquely blended sound of soul, R&B, jazz and funk. Common themes in neo soul lyrics address personal relationships and social/political issues. In more recent years, neo soul has incorporated more synthesized instruments and been produced entirely on laptops, while still retaining influences from pioneers of the 1990s style.

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    Neo soul emerged from soul and contemporary R&B music in the 1980s and 1990s, incorporating elements of funk, jazz, hip hop, and African music. It was marketed by Motown Records as a uniquely blended sound of soul, R&B, jazz and funk. Common themes in neo soul lyrics address personal relationships and social/political issues. In more recent years, neo soul has incorporated more synthesized instruments and been produced entirely on laptops, while still retaining influences from pioneers of the 1990s style.

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    NEO SOUL

    A style of music that emerged from soul and contemporary R&B. Heavily
    based in soul music with incorporated elements ranging from funk, jazz
    fusion, hip hop, and African music to pop, rock, and electronic music.
    Hello class my name is Ndzhaka, and my genre of music is Neo soul and
    here’s why:

    Neo soul originated in the 1980s and early 1990s. When


    singer-songwriter Erykah Badu’s debut album, Baduizm, hit the
    airways in 1997, she introduced a new musical style that
    captivated audiences. Motown Records’s Kedar Massenburg
    marketed it as neo soul, describing its uniquely blended
    elements of soul, R&B, jazz and funk. A few years earlier, the
    sound of Tony! Toni! Toné!’s Sons of Soul (1993) and
    D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar (1995), reverberated the 1970 soul
    sensibility that some critics identify as the first recordings of
    neo soul. the spoken word tradition is delivered over soul, funk,
    hip-hop and jazz-derived tracks in a variety of tempos.
    The Lyrics:

    The most common theme in neo soul is personal


    relationships. Men acknowledge their vulnerabilities and
    fears in pursuit of rewarding and committed relations and
    women address relationships with empowered and
    liberated voices that carry over into songs of social and
    political commentary. Plantation Lullabies references the
    1960s struggle for racial equality in “I’m Diggin’ You (Like
    an Old Soul Record)” and the negative effects of a
    capitalistic system on urban Black America in “Shoot’n Up
    and Gett’n High.” Erykah Badu details how drugs destroy
    lives and families in “The Cell” and the impact of systemic
    racism in “Twinkle.”
    In the new millennium, the neo soul aesthetic morphed
    into new and different sounds with the incorporation and
    even the domination of synthesized instruments. Marsha
    Ambrosius’s “Late Nights & Early Mornings” (2011), for
    example, blends synthesized strings, an acoustic piano,
    and electronic drums with the sound effects produced by
    the Auto-Tune, a digital device used to manipulate vocal
    and instrumental timbres. Erykah Badu fully exploits the
    Auto-Tune technology in P-funk-influenced “Love” (2010).
    Furthermore, artists began producing entire projects on
    laptops using music software as did Erykah Badu on New
    Amerykah (2008). Despite these changes, the vocal
    stylings and sparse and sometimes live instrumentation of
    1990s neo soul pioneers lingers in the creations of several
    R&B artists of the new millennium, such as John Legend
    Thank you

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