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Groove Theory : The Blues Foundation of Funk /

Tony Bolden presents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history, Bolden explores what it means for music, or any c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bolden, Tony (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:American made music series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Groove theory : liner notes on funk aesthetics
  • Blue funk : the ugly beauty of stank
  • Sly Stone and the gospel of funk
  • Songbird : Chaka Khan as funk queen
  • Funky bluesology : Gil Scott-Heron as black organic intellectual
  • The kinkiness of turquoise : Betty Davis's liberated funk-rock.