The Funk Era and Beyond

I. Prelude from the Funkmaster

1. Sly Stone and the Sanctified Church
Mark Anthony Neal

II. Introduction

2. Theorizing the Funk: An Introduction
Tony Bolden

III. Inside the Funk Shop: Writings on the Funk Band Era

3. A Philosophy of Funk: The Politics and Pleasure of a Parliafunkadelicment Thang!
Amy Nathan Wright

4. James Brown: Icon of Black Power
Rickey Vincent

5. A Land of Funk: Dayton, Ohio
Scot Brown

6. From The Crib to the Coliseum: An Interview with Bootsy Collins
Thomas Sayers Ellis

IV. Impressions: Funkativity and Visual Art

7. Cane Fields, Blues Text-ure: An Improvisational Meditation on Jean Toomer’s Cane and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta
Karen Ohnesorge

8. Good Morning Blues: Gordon Parks Imagines Leadbelly
Maurice L. Bryan

9. Shine2.0: Aaron Mcgruder’s Huey Freeman as Contemporary Folk Hero
Howard Rambsy

V. Funkintelechy: (Re)Cognizing Black Writing

10. Alabama
Aldon Lynn Nielsen

11. Jazz Aesthetics and the Revision of Myth in Leon Forrest’s There is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden
Dana A. Williams

12. Living the Funk: Lifestyle, Lyricism, and Lessons in Modern and Contemporary Art of Black Women
Carmen Phelps

13. Cultural Memory in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men
Ondra Krouse-Dismukes

VI. Imagine That: Fonky Blues Rockin and Rollin

14. Funkin’ With Bach: The Impact of Professor Longhair on Rock ‘N’ Roll
Cheryl L. Keyes

15. Blue/Funk as Political Philosophy: The Poetry of Gil Scott-Heron
Tony Bolden

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Music, Regional and Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies, Anthropology