Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One

426 Pages·1996·3.59 MB·English

by  Rickey Vincent

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Contents
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
FUNK DYNASTIES FROM THE 1960S TO THE 1990S
MAJOR FUNK ARTISTS BY REGION
FOREWORD by George Clinton
PREFACE: ON THE ONE
Those Funky Seventies • Origins of This Book • Props
PART 1—INTRODUCTION TO FUNK: THE BOMB
1. INTRODUCTION TO FUNK: THE BOMB
What Is Funk? • Why a Book about Funk? • Who Has The Funk? • The Bomb •
The Funk Revival • The History of Funk
2. FUNK MUSIC: DANCE WIT ME
Funk Bands • Musical Model of Funk Evolution
3. MYTHS ABOUT FUNK: ALL THAT IS GOOD IS NASTY
4. ROOTS: WHERE’D YOU GET YOUR FUNK FROM?
The Origin of Funky • Musical Roots • The One • Funky Blues • Jazz Age •
Rhythm and Blues • Funk and Soul Be-Bop
PART 2—THE ORIGINAL FUNK DYNASTY (1965–72): SLIPPIN’ INTO DARKNESS
5. THE 1960S: IF 6 WAS 9
Civil Rights and the Dream • Black Power • The Black Panther Party • Black Is
Beautiful • Hippies and the Counterculture • Sgt. Pepper
6. THE RHYTHM REVOLUTION: TIGHTEN UP
The Rhythm Revolution • Proto-Funk • Stax • The Meters • New Orleans Heart
and Soul • Africa (Take Me Back)
7. THE GODFATHER: SOUL POWER
James Brown • A New Bag • Say It Loud • The JBs • The Payback • Universal
James
8. THE FAMILY STONED: I WANNA TAKE YOU HIGHER
Sly and the Family Stone • Stand! • Larry Graham • Riot • Time for Livin’
PART 3—SEARCHING FOR THE FUNK: COME TOGETHER
9. BLACK ROCK: GIVIN’ IT BACK
The Blues, Rock, and Funk • Blues to Rock • Jimi Hendrix • Black Rock Bands •
Mandrill • War • Santana • Stax • Isaac Hayes • The Bar-Kays • Graham Central
Station • The Jam • Johnny “Guitar” Watson
10. FUNKY SOUL: EXPRESS YOURSELF
Soul and Funk • Ray Charles • Aretha Franklin • Motown • What’s Goin’ On •
Sweet Funk • Stevie Wonder • The Philly Sound • The O’Jays
11. JAZZ-FUNK FUSION: THE CHAMELEON
Jazz and Funk • Miles Davis • Herbie Hancock • Jazz-Funk Fusion • The 1980s
and Beyond • Whither Jazz?
PART 4—THE UNITED FUNK DYNASTY (1972–76): THE SHINING STAR
12. POWER TO THE PEOPLE: IT’S JUST BEGUN
Funky Power • NATRA • Recording Power • Curtis Mayfield • Stax Power • Gil
Scott-Heron • The Last Poets • Party and Bullshit
13. THOSE FUNKY SEVENTIES: LIVIN’ FOR THE CITY
Change • Those Funky Seventies • Television • Soul Train • Black Action Movies
• Down Home Funk • Mumbo Jumbo • I’m Funky and I’m Proud
14. UNITED FUNK: THE SHINING STAR
Number One Funk • Funky Worm • Kool & the Gang • African Influence • Earth,
Wind & Fire • Average White Band • Rufus • Funky Women • The Isley Brothers
• The Ohio Players • The Commodores
PART 5—THE P-FUNK DYNASTY (1976–79): ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVE
15. DISCO FEVER: THE (REAL) HUSTLE
The Carter Era • Disco as Fantasy • Sexploitation • Disco Music • The Disco
Industry • Disco Sucks
16. DANCE FUNK: DO YOU WANNA GET FUNKY WITH ME?
Dance Funk • K. C. and the Sunshine Band • Brass Construction and B.T.
Express • Chic • Soul Bands • The Brothers Johnson • Maze • Monster Funk in
the Third Funk Dynasty • Cameo • Brick • Slave • The Bar-Kays
17. THE P-FUNK EMPIRE: TEAR THE ROOF OFF THE SUCKER
The Parliaments • Funkadelic • Bernie Worrell • The Maggot Brain • Parliament
• P-Funk • The Mothership Connection • Bootsy’s Rubber Band • The Earth Tour
• Flashlight and One Nation • Atomic Dog
18. THE METAPHYSICS OF P: THE MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION
Afro-centric • The Mothership • Cosmic Oneness • The Infinity Within • Balance
• The Life Force
PART 6—THE NAKED FUNK DYNASTY (1980–87): DANCE, MUSIC, SEX …
19. FUNK IN THE 1980S: SUPER FREAKS
The Naked Funk Dynasty • Killer Crossover • War on The Funk • Naked Funk •
Rick James • Prince • The Time • Naked Funk Bands • Roger and Zapp
20. HIP HOP AND BLACK NOISE: RAISING HELL
New York Hip Hop • Afrika Bambaataa • Industrial Funk • Go Go • Trouble
Funk • World Beat • Bay Area Funk • Funk Rock • The Black Rock Coalition
PART 7—THE HIP HOP NATION: AMERIKKKA’S MOST WANTED
21. FUNK IN THE NINETIES: RETURN OF THE FUNK
Political Rap • Afro-centric Rap • A Funky Spirituality • P-Funk Hip Hop • West
Coast Rap • Sexism and Power • 2-Live Crew • The Funk Wars
22. POSTSCRIPT ON THE FUNK: SONS OF THE P
Funkateers
APPENDICES
Essential Funk Recordings
Sources and Notes
INDEX
CRITICAL PRAISE FOR FUNK BY RICKEY VINCENT
COPYRIGHT
For Marcus
Funk Dynasties from the 1960s to the
1990s Predynastic Early Sixties
GOSPEL
James Cleveland Mahalia Jackson The Soul Stirrers
RHYTHM AND BLUES
Ray Charles
James Brown >
Jackie Wilson
Booker T & the MGs >
Isley Brothers >
Atlantic Artists Stax Artists
BLUES/ROCK
Muddy Waters
Howlin Wolf
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Bo Diddley
B. B. King
Johnny “Guitar” Watson
JAZZ
Miles Davis Quintet John Coltrane
Sun Ra >
Donald Byrd
Art Blakey
Horace Silver
Charles Mingus First Funk Dynasty Late Sixties
UNIFICATION
SOUL
James Brown >
Aretha Franklin Otis Redding
Motown Artists
Impressions
Wilson Pickett
Joe Tex
Parliaments >
Isaac Hayes
Stax Artists
BLACK ROCK
Jimi Hendrix
Sly and the Family Stone Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd St. Band Bar-Kays
>
Booker T & the MGs Meters
Buddy Miles
Isley Brothers >
War >
Santana >