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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bolden, Tony, author.     Subjects     Funk (Music) -- History and criticism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bolden, Tony, author.       by title:      Groove theory : the ...         MARC Display

Groove theory : the blues foundation of funk / Tony Bolden. by Bolden, Tony, author. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020] Subjects Funk (Music) -- History and criticism. ISBN:  9781496830609 (trade paperback) 1496830601 (trade paperback) Series:  American made music series. Description:  272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents:  Side A: Groove theory: conceptual foundations of blue funk. Intro ; Groove theory: liner notes on funk aesthetics ; Blue funk: the ugly beauty of stank ; Sly Stone and the gospel of funk -- Side B: Devotion: blue funk and the black fantastic. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 cultural artifact, to be funky. Multitudes of African American musicians and dancers created aesthetic frameworks with artistic principles and cultural politics that proved transformative. Bolden approaches the study of funk and black musicians by examining aesthetics, poetics, cultural history, and intellectual history. The study traces the concept of funk from early blues culture to a metamorphosis into a full-fledged artistic framework and a named musical genre in the 1970s, and thereby Bolden presents an alternative reading of the blues tradition. In part one of this two-part book, Bolden undertakes a theoretical examination of the development of funk and the historical conditions in which black artists reimagined their music. In part two, he provides historical and biographical studies of key funk artists, all of whom transfigured elements of blues tradition into new styles and visions. Funk artists, like their blues relatives, tended to contest and contextualize racialized notions of blackness, sexualized notions of gender, and bourgeois notions of artistic value. Funk artists displayed contempt for the status quo and conveyed alternative stylistic concepts and social perspectives through multimedia expression. Bolden argues that on this road to cultural recognition, funk accentuated many of the qualities of black expression that had been stigmatized throughout much of American history"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 781.644 Bo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Nonfiction 781.644 Bo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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