Groove Theory - Tony Bolden

Groove Theory

The Blues Foundation of Funk

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2020
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-3052-4 (ISBN)
135,90 inkl. MwSt
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, Tony Bolden explores what it means for music, or any cultural artifact, to be funky.
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.

Tony Bolden is associate professor of African and African American studies at the University of Kansas. His teaching and research interests include African American music, African American literature, cultural studies, African literature, and ethnic American literature. He has published extensively on funk and blues.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie American Made Music Series
Zusatzinfo 9 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort Jackson
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 550 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4968-3052-0 / 1496830520
ISBN-13 978-1-4968-3052-4 / 9781496830524
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