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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 someone as musically representative of Detroit as Motown; as the member of the first soul group to employ circus hands among their roadies. Clinton's principal groups, Parliament and Funkadelic, pulled 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. 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. Lloyd Bradley's perceptive and fascinating portrait has been enhanced by his close relationship to Clinton, and the book is peppered with extensive interviews. The significance and singularity of this extraordinary man is superbly reflected in this definitive study.
