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Contents Preface 000 Acknowledgments 000 I. Black and/ or White: Introductory Perspectives 1. Whose Funk? 000 James Brown and Parliament; A Short History, 000 Whose Funk?, 000 Understanding Funk; Hermeneutic Challenges, 000 2. Two Discourses on Blackness 000 The Primitivist Representation of Black Culture, 000 Black Is Beautiful!; Black Music and Black Struggle, 000 A Common Source of Otherness?, 000 II A Brand New Bag: Analytical Investigations From Songs to Grooves, 000 3. A Fabric of Rhythm 000 On Multilinear Rhythm, 000 Virtuality; Actuality, Figure; Gesture, 000 The Heterogeneous Sound Ideal, 000 The Conversational Mode, 000 On Internal Beat, 000 Genre and Individuality; The Art of Signifyin(g), 000 4. Rhythm and Counter-Rhythm 000 Simple Syncopation or Secondary Rag?, 000 A Tendency of Cross-Rhythm, 000 Limitation, Concealment, Fragmentation; On the Perfectly Imperfect Balance, 000 Rhythm and Counter-Rhythm; A Metrical Romance, 000 5. "The Downbeat, in Anticipation" 000 Change of Density Referent, 000 "Sex Machine", 000 On and Off; On Displacement, Offbeat Phrasing, and the Way to Treat Strong Beats, 000 More on Manner; James Brown as Vocal Percussionist, 000 Disturbing the Internal Beat, 000 The Pulse of the Rhythm and the Pulse of the Counter-Rhythm, 000 Ants and Downstrokes, 000 III Funk in the Crossover Era 6. A Brand(ed) New Fad 000 Social Change and the Era of Crossover, 000 Hot, Hot, Hot. . . ?; James Brown at Polydor, 000 . . . And Beyond; The Despiritualization of Funk, 000 The Influence of Disco, 000 7. "Some Say It's Funk after Death" 000 P-Funk as Black Consolidation, 000 The Rhythm on One, 000 Extended Ambiguity; "The Ifs, the Ands, and the Buts . . .", 000 The Funk Riff, 000 Grounded Ambiguity; On the Stable Unstable, 000 One Nation under a Groove!; The Gospel of Dr. Funkenstein, 000 Analytical Afterthoughts, 000 IV "Once Upon a Time Called Now!": Temporalities and Experience "The Payback", 000 The State of Being in Funk, 000 The Groove Mode and the Song Mode of Listening, 000 8. Time and Again 000 The Dominance of Linear Temporality, 000 Eternal Present vs. Eternal Presence; On Different Nonlinearities, 000 Repetition vs. Repetition, 000 Repetition with a Difference, 000 Repetition in Time, 000 Repetition as Production, 000 Repetitive Production in Grooves, 000 Circularity and the One, 000 9. Between Song and Groove 000 Groove Becoming Song, 000 The Dissolution of the Hierarchy of Sequences, 000 Song Becoming Groove, 000 The Pure Groove, 000 Consecration, Cut, and a New Beginning, 000 Continuity and Breaks, 000 Groove vs. Nonsong, 000 10. Feeling, Intensity, and the Sublimity of the Event 000 Funk (A)live, 000 The Imploding Event, 000 I Feel Good!; The Feeling of Feeling, 000 Give Me a Break!; Intervention and Intensity, 000 "Once Upon a Time Called Now!", 000 11. Presence and Pleasure 000 The Veiling of Musical Means, 000 Externalizing the Internal Other, 000 Body vs. Time; Renaming the Internal Other?, 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Funk (Music) -- History and criticism.
Brown, James, 1928-.
Parliament (Musical group).