The Funk Era and Beyond New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture

The Funk Era and Beyond is the first scholarly collection to discuss the significance of funk music in America. Contributors employ a multitude of methodologies to examine this unique musical genre's relationship to African American culture and to music, literature, and visual art as a whole.

PART I: PRELUDE FROM THE FUNKMASTER Sly Stone and the Sanctified Church; M. A. Neal PART II. INTRODUCTION Theorizing the Funk: An Introduction; T. Bolden PART III. INSIDE THE FUNK SHOP: WRITINGS ON THE FUNK BAND ERA A Philosophy of Funk: The Politics and Pleasure of a Parliafunkadelicment Thang!; A. Nathan Wright James Brown: Icon of Black Power; Rickey Vincent 'The Land of Funk': Dayton, Ohio; S. Brown From the Crib to the Coliseum: An Interview with Bootsy Collins; T. Sayers Ellis PART IV. IMPRESSIONS: FUNKATIVITY AND VISUAL ART Cane Fields, Blues Text-ure: An Improvisational; K. Ohnesorge Good Morning Blues; M. Bryan Shine2.0: Aaron McGruder's Huey Freeman as Contemporary Folk Hero; H. Rambsy II PART V. FUNKINTELECHY: (RE)COGNIZING BLACK WRITING Alabama; A. Nielsen Jazz Aesthetics and the Revision of Myth in Leon Forrest's There Is a Tree More Ancient than Eden; D. Williams Living the Funk: Lifestyle, Lyricism, and Lessons in; C. Phelps Modern and Contemporary Art of Black Women Cultural Memory in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men ; O. Krouse Dismukes PART VI. IMAGINE THAT: FONKY BLUES ROCKIN AND ROLLIN Funkin' with Bach: The Impact of Professor Longhair on Rock'n'Roll; C. L. Keys Blue/Funk as Political Philosophy: The Poetry of Gil Scott-Heron; T. Bolden

TONY BOLDEN is Associate Professor of African American Literature and Culture, University of Alabama, USA.