| Description |
viii, 262 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Signs of race |
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Signs of race.
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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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Funk (Music)
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| Author |
Bolden, Tony.
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| LC no. |
2009536193 |
| ISBN |
031229607X (hbk.) |
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0312296088 |
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9780312296070 (hbk.) |
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9780312296087 |
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