Tony Bolden presents an innovative history of funk music focused on
the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new
aesthetic. Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance
studies, and African American intellectual history, Bolden explores
what it means for music, or any cultural artifact, to be funky.
Multitudes of African American musicians and dancers created
aesthetic frameworks with artistic principles and cultural politics
that proved transformative. Bolden approaches the study of funk and
black musicians by examining aesthetics, poetics, cultural history,
and intellectual history. The study traces the concept of funk from
early blues culture to a metamorphosis into a full-fledged artistic
framework and a named musical genre in the 1970s, and thereby
Bolden presents an alternative reading of the blues tradition. In
part one of this two-part book, Bolden undertakes a theoretical
examination of the development of funk and the historical
conditions in which black artists reimagined their music. In part
two, he provides historical and biographical studies of key funk
artists, all of whom transfigured elements of blues tradition into
new styles and visions. Funk artists, like their blues relatives,
tended to contest and contextualize racialized notions of
blackness, sexualized notions of gender, and bourgeois notions of
artistic value. Funk artists displayed contempt for the status quo
and conveyed alternative stylistic concepts and social perspectives
through multimedia expression. Bolden argues that on this road to
cultural recognition, funk accentuated many of the qualities of
black expression that had been stigmatized throughout much of
American history.
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