"Disaporic intimacy"
 

when examining certain strands of dance music (Soul II Soul; Jazzie B; Funki Dreds), Gilroy notes that they display a "formal unity of diverse cultural elements" which he sees as a sign of a "playful diasporic intimacy" (16)

> from Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993)

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