In this exploration of the funk groove and its unique sounds, author Anne Danielsen takes an in-depth look at this under-explored genre. Danielsen concentrates on the golden age of funk in the late 1960s and the 1970s, focusing on two of the era's artists who made a substantial impact on the landscape of popular music: James Brown and George Clinton/Parliament. Aiming to understand funk not only as objectified musical meaning but also as lived experience, she begins with the musical events themselves and draws on her experiences as both a fan and a scholar to capture how their particular organization creates the funk listener's pleasure. Danielsen further examines issues surrounding race in the construction and consumption of this music, focusing her study with how white listeners responded to funk in the 1970s, and arguing that African American music has remained a means of catharsis and of dealing with pleasures of the body. Funk's crossover to international success among listeners of pop and rock music affected both the music itself and audiences' understanding of it. Presence and Pleasure shows us how.
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"Not only the first major study of funk, but also a major contribution both to the study of rhythm in American popular music and to the phenomenological analysis of music." (Mitchell Morris, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles )
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ANNE DANIELSEN is a researcher in the department of musicology at the University of Oslo.
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Very informative but difficult reading. I don't know if Funk music can be understood or "felt" when looked at from an academic or scientific point of view. My suggestion is buy the music, listen, then dance "your butt off"!!
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main basic pulse, listening habitus, primitivistic reading, formative repetition, snappy phrasing, crossover era, density referent, funk experience, crossover funk, black dance music, pure groove, groove experience, groove mode, funk fans, main groove, rhythmic fabric, offbeat phrasing, funk groove, funk riff, internal beat, main rhythm, sounding events, brand new bag, rhythmic dialogue, funk tunes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
James Brown, African American, The Payback, Sex Machine, Cold Sweat, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Soul Power, United States, Chocolate City, Hot Pants, Funky President, Whose Funk, Olly Wilson, Paul Ricceur, Body Heat, Christopher Small, Clyde Stubblefield, Got the Feelin, Saturday Night Fever, Some Say It's Funk, White House New!
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main basic pulse, listening habitus, primitivistic reading, formative repetition, snappy phrasing, crossover era, density referent, funk experience, crossover funk, black dance music, pure groove, groove experience, groove mode, funk fans, main groove, rhythmic fabric, offbeat phrasing, funk groove, funk riff, internal beat, main rhythm, sounding events, brand new bag, rhythmic dialogue, funk tunes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
James Brown, African American, The Payback, Sex Machine, Cold Sweat, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Soul Power, United States, Chocolate City, Hot Pants, Funky President, Whose Funk, Olly Wilson, Paul Ricceur, Body Heat, Christopher Small, Clyde Stubblefield, Got the Feelin, Saturday Night Fever, Some Say It's Funk, White House New!
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