Presence and Pleasure

The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament

Professor Anne Danielsen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

275 Seiten

2006
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-6822-9 (ISBN)

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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.

ANNE DANIELSEN is a researcher in the department of musicology at the University of Oslo.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.11.2006
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10	0-8195-6822-8 / 0819568228
ISBN-13	978-0-8195-6822-9 / 9780819568229
Zustand	Neuware