| Series |
Signs of race
Signs of race. ^A591276
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| Contents |
Sly Stone and the Sanctified church / Mark Anthony Neal -- Theorizing the funk: an introduction / Tony Bolden -- A philosophy of funk: the politics and pleasure of a Parliafunkadelicment thang! / Amy Nathan Wright -- James Brown: icon of Black power / Rickey Vincent -- A land of funk: Dayton, Ohio / Scot Brown -- From the crib to the Coliseum: an interview with Bootsy Collins / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Cane fields, blues text-ure: an improvisational meditation on Jean Toomer's Cane and Jean-Michel Basquiat's Undiscovered genius of the Mississippi Delta / Karen Ohnesorge -- Good morning blues: Gordon Parks imagines Leadbelly / Maurice L. Bryan Jr. -- Shine2.0: Aaron McGruder's Huey Freeman as contemporary folk hero / Howard Rambsy II -- Alabama / Aldon Lynn Nielsen -- Jazz aesthetics and the revision of myth in Leon Forrest's There is a tree more ancient than Eden / Dana A. Williams -- Living the funk: lifestyle, lyricism, and lessons in modern contemporary art of Black women / Carmen Phelps -- Cultural memory in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men / Ondra Krouse-Dismukes -- Funkin' with Bach: the impact of Professor Longhair on rock 'n' roll / Cheryl L. Keyes -- Blue/funk as political philosophy: the poetry of Gil Scott-Heron / Tony Bolden. |
| Abstract |
This is the first scholarly collection to discuss the significance of funk music in America and delve into the intricate and complex nature of the word and its accompanying genre. While pleasure and performance are often presumed to be mutually exclusive of intellectuality, funk offers immense possibilities for a new critical rubic. As these writings demonstrate, funk is reflected in myriad forms and context and has been the catalyst for stylistic innovation. Contributors employ a multitude of methodologies to examine this unique musical genre's relationship to African American culture and to music, literature, and visual art as a whole. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780312296070 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 031229607X (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0312296088 |
| ISBN | 9780312296087 |
