Multifarious Funk The Evolution And Biography Of George Clinton And The Parliament Funkadelic Empire

Author : Sabrina Marie
Publisher : Retro Books
ISBN 13 : 9781937269654
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multifarious Funk - the Evolution and Biography of George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic Empire written by Sabrina Marie and published by Retro Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can I say about George Clinton? He is the most innovative rock and soul funkster on the planet, he has influenced a few generations of musicians in several music genres and he is STILL creating fresh grooves 60 years into his music career. His music interest started with his being a student of gospel, acapella singers and groups, street corner harmonies that moved the soul and lyrics that were spiritual and from the heart. George started his musical journey with his Doo Wop group, The Parliaments in the mid-1950's. The vocal harmonies and romantic ballads are what inspired him to form his own group.

Author : Reiland Rabaka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000594319
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Power Music! written by Reiland Rabaka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Power Music! Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement critically explores the soundtracks of the Black Power Movement as forms of "movement music." That is to say, much of classic Motown, soul, and funk music often mirrored and served as mouthpieces for the views and values, as well as the aspirations and frustrations, of the Black Power Movement. Black Power Music! is also about the intense interconnections between Black popular culture and Black political culture, both before and after the Black Power Movement, and the ways in which the Black Power Movement in many senses symbolizes the culmination of centuries of African American politics creatively combined with, and ingeniously conveyed through, African American music. Consequently, the term "Black Power music" can be seen as a code word for African American protest songs and message music between 1965 and 1975. "Black Power music" is a new concept that captures and conveys the fact that the majority of the messages in Black popular music between 1965 and 1975 seem to have been missed by most people who were not actively involved in, or in some significant way associated with, the Black Power Movement.

Author : Lloyd Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841955919
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where'd You Get That Funk From? written by Lloyd Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where'd You Get That Funk From? goes beyond the wigs and the boots and through a series of in-depth interviews and sharp cultural analyses that put George Clinton in his proper context. That is, as a radical part of black America's turbulent 1960s; as being as musically representative of Detroit as Motown; as leading the first soul group to employ circus hands among their roadies; as being able to pull together music as diverse as that of Bach, the Beatles, James Brown, Frank Zappa, the Moonglows, and the Supremes to create P-Funk, which became a cornerstone of West Coast hip-hop. Clinton's principal groups, Parliament and Funkadelic, were two of the most dynamic and sccessful American bands of the 70s, but their wild shows and badass party sounds represented just one facet of their remarkable leader's talent, Seminal songs such as Atomic Dog. Flashlight, Up for the Down Stroke. Give Up the Funk. and Bop Gun became the basis of countless hip-hop hits throughout the next two decades.

Author : Daniel Bedrosian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781538183427
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference written by Daniel Bedrosian and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective (P-Funk) is one of the most iconic and important groups in popular music history. This authorized reference features rare photos and a color photospread and provides the official P-Funk canon from 1956 to 2023: projects, albums, songs, song personnel, and tidbits about each act and select songs.

Author : George Clinton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476751080
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You? written by George Clinton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the funk music legend's rise from a 1950s barbershop quartet to an influential multigenre artist, discussing his pivotal artistic and business achievements with Parliament-Funkadelic. 75,000 first printing.

Author : Justin A. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107037468
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop written by Justin A. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

Author : Rickey Vincent
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466884525
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funk written by Rickey Vincent and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistible music. Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Colorful, intelligent, and in-you-face, Rickey Vincent's Funk celebrates the songs, the musicians, the philosophy, and the meaning of funk. The book spans from the early work of James Brown (the Godfather of Funk) through today, covering funky soul (Stevie Wonder, the Temptations), so-called "black rock" (Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Isley Brothers), jazz-funk (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock), monster funk (Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band), naked funk (Rick James, Gap Band), disco-funk (Chic, K.C. and the Sunshine Band), funky pop (Kook & the Gang, Chaka Khan), P-Funk Hip Hop (Digital Underground, De La Soul), funk-sampling rap (Ice Cube, Dr. Dre), funk rock (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus), and more. Funk tells a vital, vibrant history-the history of a uniquely American music born out of tradition and community, filled with energy, attitude, anger, hope, and an irrepressible spirit.

Author : C. Cooper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403982600
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound Clash written by C. Cooper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megawattage sound systems have blasted the electronically-enhanced riddims and tongue-twisting lyrics of Jamaica's dancehall DJs across the globe. This high-energy raggamuffin music is often dismissed by old-school roots reggae fans as a raucous degeneration of classic Jamaican popular music. In this provocative study of dancehall culture, Cooper offers a sympathetic account of the philosophy of a wide range of dancehall DJs: Shabba Ranks, Lady Saw, Ninjaman, Capleton, Buju Banton, Anthony B and Apache Indian. Cooper also demonstrates the ways in which the language of dancehall culture, often devalued as mere 'noise,' articulates a complex understanding of the border clashes which characterize Jamaican society, and analyzes the sound clashes that erupt in the movement of Jamaican dancehall culture across national borders.

Author : Mark A. McCutcheon
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771992247
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medium Is the Monster written by Mark A. McCutcheon and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and its adaptations in Canadian popular culture that popularized, even globalized, a Frankensteinian sense of technology. The Medium Is the Monster shows how we cannot talk about technology—that human-made monstrosity—today without conjuring Frankenstein, thanks in large part to its Canadian adaptations by pop culture icons such as David Cronenberg, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, and Deadmau5. In the unexpected connections illustrated by The Medium Is the Monster, McCutcheon brings a fresh approach to studying adaptations, popular culture, and technology.

Author : Tony Rose
Publisher : Amber Communications Group, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781087800561
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE STORY OF CHADWICK BOSEMAN written by Tony Rose and published by Amber Communications Group, Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Live The King! Before Chadwick Boseman gained worldwide notoriety and recognition for playing T'Challa, the King of the fictional African nation Wakanda, he was known around Hollywood for being the go-to man for a biopic. Boseman was best known for his portrayal of Jackie Robinson in 42, James Brown in Get on Up, and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall. Today, the Howard University graduate is a growing household name, by successfully breaking into the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be the first black actor to play a lead role in a superhero movie, while being a source of inspiration for African American children and children worldwide. Black Panther surprised Marvel Studios and everyone around the world when it became an international phenomenon. Just hours after the hotly anticipated premiere of "Black Panther," Vanity Fair reported that critics were unified in praise for what's being called Marvel's "first black superhero film." According to Forbes, producers spent $200 million to make the movie and another $150 million to publicize it. Their gamble paid off. "Black Panther" lived up to the hype and then some by grossing $400 million domestically in the first 10 days ― the second-fastest behind only "Jurassic World." By the end of February 2018 "Black Panther" had blown past $700 million worldwide to become history's highest-grossing film with a black cast and continued on to make $700,059,566 (domestic) and $646,853,595 (international), totaling $1,346,913,161 (worldwide).