In this “bruising portrait of legendary music producer Phil Spector” (Entertainment Weekly)
a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life
From his early albums with the Mothers of Invention
and artists who both witnessed and themselves forged the history of hip-hop
Are clothes important
Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One wilco In this “bruising portrait ofby Rickey Vincent (Author), George Clinton (Foreword) Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell bottomed, hoop earringed, rainbow Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistable music. Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have until now. Colorful,