Presents an innovative history of Funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic.
Illustrations: 9 black & white illustrations.
Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history, Tony Bolden explores what it means for music, or any cultural artifact, to be funky.
Presents an innovative history of Funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic