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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prelude from the Funkmaster
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Introduction
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Inside the Funk Shop: Writings on the Funk Band Era
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Impressions: Funkativity and Visual Art
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Funkintelechy: (Re)Cognizing Black Writing
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Imagine That: Fonky Blues Rockin and Rollin
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Reviews
'Paying homage to the ancestors (Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Professor Longhair), sitting at the feat of the elders (George Clinton, Sly Stone, James Brown) and welcoming a brand new generation of griots headed by funkmaster Aaron McGruder, The Funk Era and Beyond fills the largest remaining gap in the conversation on African-American music. Bolden's collection is theoretically sophisticated, endlessly provocative and, best of all, a joy to read.' Craig Werner, Professor and Chair, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race& the Soul of America
'This engaging book takes the reader on a journey across the multi-layered and multidisciplinary terrain of funk. This series of essays on music and the visual and literary arts reveal how 'da funk' represents innovation and aesthetic principles rooted in the Black vernacular, which defines the uniqueness of Black creativity. The Funk Era and Beyond is a must-read to understand funk as a philosophy, an attitude, a way of life, and more broadly, a cultural phenomena.' - Portia K. Maultsby, Indiana University and editor of African American Music: An Introduction
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Funk Era and Beyond
Book Subtitle: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture
Editors: Tony Bolden
Series Title: Signs of Race
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-61453-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29607-0Published: 26 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29608-7Published: 14 July 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61453-6Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-6312
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6320
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 262
Topics: Music, Regional and Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies, Anthropology