Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed, and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the Hip Hop Movement.
Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the Hip Hop Movement.
The Funk Movement was a sub-movement within the larger Black Power Movement and its artistic arm, the Black Arts Movement. Moreover, the Funk Movement was also a sub-movement within the Black Women’s Liberation Movement between the late 1960s and late 1970s, where women’s funk, especially Chaka Khan and Betty Davis’s funk, was understood to be a form of “Black musical feminism” that was as integral to the movement as the Black political feminism of Angela Davis or the Combahee River Collective and the Black literary feminism of Toni Morrison or Alice Walker. This book also demonstrates that more than any other post-war Black popular music genre, the funk music of the 1960s and 1970s laid the foundation for the mercurial rise of rap music and the Hip Hop Movement in the 1980s and 1990s.
This book is primarily aimed at scholars and students working in popular music studies, popular culture studies, American studies, African American studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, critical race studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies.
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction to Funk Music and the Funk Movement
1. Black Is Beautiful: The Black Power Movement, the Black Arts Movement,
and the Black Aesthetic
2. Pre-FunkThe Prelude to Funk: Hard Bop Jazz and the Cultural Roots of Funk
Music and the Funk Movement
3. Say It LoudIm Black and Im Proud: James Brown and the Foundations of
Funk
4. Theres A Riot Goin On: Sly and the Family Stones Psychedelic Rock,
Psychedelic Soul, and Invention of Psychedelic Funk
5. One Nation under a Groove: George Clinton, Parliament/Funkadelic,
Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Soul, and Psychedelic Funk
6. The Personal Is Political: The Black Womens Liberation Movement
7. Im Every Woman: Chaka Khan, Jazzy Soulful Sensual Funk, and the Black
Feminist Funk Movement
8. Nasty Gal: Betty Davis, Erotic Funk Rock, and the Black Feminist Funk
Movement
9. P-Funk to G-Funk: From Funk Music and the Funk Movement to Rap Music and
the Hip Hop Movement
Index
Reiland Rabaka is Founder and Director of the Center for African & African American Studies and Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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