The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sly Stone and the Sanctified Church....Pages 3-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Theorizing the Funk: An Introduction....Pages 13-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
A Philosophy of Funk: The Politics and Pleasure of a Parliafunkadelicment Thang!....Pages 33-50
James Brown: Icon of Black Power....Pages 51-72
A Land of Funk: Dayton, Ohio....Pages 73-88
From The Crib to the Coliseum: An Interview with Bootsy Collins....Pages 89-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Cane Fields, Blues Text-ure: An Improvisational Meditation on Jean Toomer’s Cane and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta....Pages 107-124
Good Morning Blues: Gordon Parks Imagines Leadbelly....Pages 125-142
Shine2.0: Aaron Mcgruder’s Huey Freeman as Contemporary Folk Hero....Pages 143-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Alabama....Pages 161-170
Jazz Aesthetics and the Revision of Myth in Leon Forrest’s There is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden....Pages 171-182
Living the Funk: Lifestyle, Lyricism, and Lessons in Modern and Contemporary Art of Black Women....Pages 183-191
Cultural Memory in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men....Pages 193-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Funkin’ With Bach: The Impact of Professor Longhair on Rock ‘N’ Roll....Pages 213-226
Blue/Funk as Political Philosophy: The Poetry of Gil Scott-Heron....Pages 227-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-262