Funk

Rickey Vincent`s examination of funk, its origins, influences, and most celebrated practitioners, explores the nature of this musical hybrid of R&B, jazz, the blues, and rock & roll in chapters that include a brief history of the Black Panther party, a study of James Brown, and an examination of George Clinton`s influential Parliament-Funkadelic musical conglomerate. Vincent`s wide-ranging exploration covers the music`s shifting parameters since its advent in the 1960s, its relationship to the growing black political consciousness of that and succeeding decades, and its inevitable absorption into the musical mainstream through commercialization. Exactly what funk is turns out to be almost indefinable--as much a feeling as a musical genre, you know it when you encounter it. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.