The funk era and beyond
Subtitle: new perspectives on Black popular culture
By: edited by Tony Bolden.
Contributors: Bolden, Tony.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Signs of race; Signs of race
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780312296070; 9780312296087
Subjects: Funk (Music); African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; African-American arts; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Race identity
Other titles: New perspectives on Black popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sly Stone and the Sanctified church / Mark Anthony Neal; title: Theorizing the funk : an introduction / Tony Bolden; title: A philosophy of funk : the politics and pleasure of a Parliafunkadelicment thang! / Amy Nathan Wright; title: James Brown : icon of Black power / Rickey Vincent; title: A land of funk : Dayton, Ohio / Scot Brown; title: From the crib to the Coliseum : an interview with Bootsy Collins / Thomas Sayers Ellis; title: 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; title: Good morning blues : Gordon Parks imagines Leadbelly / Maurice L. Bryan Jr.; title: Shine2.0 : Aaron McGruder's Huey Freeman as contemporary folk hero / Howard Rambsy II; title: Alabama / Aldon Lynn Nielsen; title: Jazz aesthetics and the revision of myth in Leon Forrest's There is a tree more ancient than Eden / Dana A. Williams; title: Living the funk : lifestyle, lyricism, and lessons in modern contemporary art of Black women / Carmen Phelps; title: Cultural memory in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men / Ondra Krouse-Dismukes; title: Funkin' with Bach : the impact of Professor Longhair on rock 'n' roll / Cheryl L. Keyes; title: Blue/funk as political philosophy : the poetry of Gil Scott-Heron / Tony Bolden.