Presence and pleasure : the funk grooves of James Brown and Parliament, Anne Danielsen

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Presence and pleasure : the funk grooves of James Brown and Parliament, Anne Danielsen

Title remainder

the funk grooves of James Brown and Parliament

Statement of responsibility

Anne Danielsen

Instantiates

• Presence and pleasure : the funk grooves of James Brown and Parliament

Publication

• Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press, c2006

Bar code

• 31223073618770
• 31223073618788

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• Whose funk? James Brown and Parliament : a short history ; Whose funk? ; Understanding funk : hermeneutic challenges -- Two discourses on blackness. The primitivist representation of black culture ; Black is beautiful! : black music and black struggle ; A common source of otherness? -- A brand new bag : analytical investigations. From songs to grooves -- A fabric of rhythm. On multilinear rhythm ; Virtuality : actuality, figure - gesture ; The heterogenerous sound ideal ; The conversational mode ; On internal beat ; Genre and individuality : the art of signifyin(g) -- Rhythm and counter-rhythm. Simple syncopation or secondary rag? ; A tendency of cross-rhythm ; Limitation, concealment, fragmentation : on the perfectly imperfect balance ; Rhythm and counter-rhythm : a metrical romance -- "The downbeat, in anticipation." Change of density referent ; "Sex machine" ; On and off : on displacement, offbeat phrasing, and the way to treat strong beats ; More on manner : James Brown as vocal percussionist ; Disturbing the internal beat ; The pulse of the rhythm and the pulse of the counter-rhythm ; Ants and downstrokes --
• A brand(ed) new fad. Social change and the era of crossover ; Hot, hot, hot ...? : James Brown at Polydor ; And beyond : the despiritualization of funk ; The influence of disco -- "Some say it's funk after death." P-Funk as black consolidation ; The rhythm on one ; Extended ambiguity : "the ifs, the ands, and the buts ..." ; The funk riff ; Grounded ambiguity : on the stable unstable ; One nation under a groove! : the gospel of Dr. Funkenstein ; Analytical afterthoughts -- "Once upon a time called now!" : temporalities and experience. The payback ; The state of being in a funk ; The groove mode and the song mode of listening -- Time and again. The dominance of linear temporality ; Eternal present vs. eternal presence : on different nonlinearities ; Repetition vs. repetition ; Repetition with a difference ; Repetition in time ; Repetition as production ; Repetitive production in grooves ; Circularity and the one -- Between song and groove. Groove becoming song ; The dissolution of the hierarchy of sequences ; Song becoming groove ; The pure groove ; Consecration, cut, and a new beginning ; Continuity and breaks ; Groove vs. nonsong -- Feeling, intensity, and the sublimity of the event. Funk (a)live ; The imploding event ; I feel good! : the feeling of feeling ; Give me a break! : intervention and intensity ; "Once upon a time called now!" -- Presence and pleasure. The veiling of musical means ; Externalizing the internal other ; Body vs. time : renaming the internal other?

Dimensions

23 cm.

Extent

xiii, 262 p.

Isbn

9780819568236

Isbn Type

(pbk.)

Lccn

2006010987

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

ill., music

Record ID

• 2055290
• 2055290

System control number

• 67374928
• (OCoLC)67374928